2019 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis: Joel Harris, University of Utah

Joel M. Harrisis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah.  He received a B.S. degree from Duke University in 1972, his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Purdue University in 1976, following which he joined the faculty of the University of Utah.  Harris’s research has focused on analytical spectro­scopy studies of low concentrations of molecules in liquids and at liquid-solid interfaces.  He and his students have advanced new ideas in photothermal spectroscopy, methods to analyze multi­dimensional spectroscopic data, Raman spectroscopy of transient species and interfaces, and quantita­tive analysis of interfacial molecular populations by imaging and counting individual fluorescent molecules. They have applied these methods to investigate the kinetics and energetics of excited-states and reactive-intermediates, and molecular transport, adsorption, and binding kinetics that govern separations and analysis at liquid-solid interfaces.  Harris is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.  He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Coblentz Award in Molecular Spectro­scopy, the Calvin and JeNeal Hatch Prize in Teaching at the University of Utah, the ACS Analytical Division Award in Chemical Instrumen­ta­tion, the Pittsburgh Conference Analytical Chemistry Award, the Benedetti-Pichler Award in Micro­chemistry, Coblentz Society Bomem-Michelson Award, and the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry.