Education

2007: Currently Ph.D. student in Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Advisor: Professor Carl Lineberger

2005: B.A. Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA
Thesis Title: "Chemical dynamics of high energy molecules: The role of state density in collisional relaxation"
Advisor: Professor Amy Mullin

Research Experience

Photoelectron spectroscopy of dihalide CO₂ clusters
Relaxation dynamics of collisions and reactions of high energy molecules

Publications

J. F. Stanton, E. Garand, J. Kim, T. I. Yacovitch, A. S. Case, E. M. Miller, Y.-J. Lu, K. M. Vogelhuber, S. W. Wren, T. Ichino, J. P. Maier, R. J. McMahon, D. L. Osborn, D. M. Neumark and W.C. Lineberger, Ground and Low-Lying Excited States of Propadienylidene Obtained by Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy, J. Chem. Phys. submitted (2011).

A. S. Case, E. M. Miller, J. P. Martin, Y.-J. Lu, L. Sheps, A. B. McCoy, and W.C. Lineberger, Dynamic Mapping of CN Rotation Following Photoexcitation of ICN^-, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Eng. in press (2011).

E. M. Miller, L. Sheps, Y.-J. Lu, A. S. Case, A. B. McCoy and W.C. Lineberger, New View of ICN A continuum using Photoelectron Spectroscopy of ICN^-, J. Chem. Phys., 136, 044313 (2012).

L. Sheps, E. M. Miller, S. Horvath, M. A. Thompson, R. Parson, A. B. McCoy and W.C. Lineberger, Photodissociation Dynamics of B²Σ IBr^- and B²Σ IBr^-(CO₂): Efficient Solvent-Driven Charge Transfer, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 184311 [9 pages] (2011).

Leonid Sheps, Elisa Miller, Matthew Thompson, Robert Parson, Samantha Horvath, Anne B. McCoy and W. Carl Lineberger, Solvent-Mediated Electron Hopping: Long-Range Electron Transfer in IBr^-(CO₂) Photodissociation, Science 328, 220-224 (2010).

Sheps, Leonid; Miller, Elisa; Thompson, Matthew; Parson, Robert; Horvath, Samantha; McCoy, Anne B. Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of photodissociated IBr, submitted,  Science.

Sheps, Leonid and Miller, Elisa M. Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Small  IBr- (CO2)n (n = 0-3) Cluster Anions, J Chem Phys. 131, 064304 (2009).

Liu, Q; Du, J.; Havey, D.K.; Li, Z.; Miller, E. M.; Mullin, A.S., Alkylation Effects on Strong Collisions of Highly Vibrationally Excited Alkylated Pyridines with CO2, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2073-4080 (2007).