Daniel Neumark
Daniel Milton Neumark is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
Education
Neumark obtained his B.A. and M.A. from Harvard University, working as an undergraduate in the lab of Dudley Herschbach. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from University of California, Berkeley in the lab of future Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee.Career and research
From 1984 to 1986 he was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Colorado, in the lab of W. Carl Lineberger at JILA. He currently is a professor at University of California, Berkeley. He was the director of the chemical sciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2000 to 2010.Neumark specializes in the use of ultra-high vacuum techniques and photochemistry to characterize the quantum states of elusive or short-lived chemical entities in the gas phase. His research has involved the probing transition states using negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy, investigation of the properties and dynamics of hydrated electrons using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy on water clusters. Neumark and fellow Berkeley professor Stephen Leone have collaborated on research probing quantum dynamics using attosecond spectroscopy.