Tamar Seideman

Seideman was born in Israel. She studied chemistry at the Tel Aviv University and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in 1982.{{Cite web|url=https://nanohub.org/members/15604|title=nanoHUB.org - Members: View: Tamar Seideman|website=nanohub.org|access-date=2019-09-30}} She joined the Weizmann Institute of Science for her doctoral studies and earned her PhD under the supervision of Moshe Shapiro in 1990.{{Cite journal|last1=Fainberg|first1=Boris D.|last2=Seideman|first2=Tamar|date=2013-06-28|title=Optically induced current in molecular conduction nanojunctions with semiconductor contacts|journal=Chemical Physics Letters|volume=576|pages=1–9|doi=10.1016/j.cplett.2013.02.045|issn=0009-2614|bibcode=2013CPL...576....1F}} Her doctoral work considered the quantum theory of laser catalysis.{{Cite journal|last1=Seideman|first1=Tamar|last2=Krause|first2=Jeffrey L.|last3=Shapiro|first3=Moshe|date=1991-01-01|title=Quantum theory of laser catalysis in one and three dimensions|journal=Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society|language=en|volume=91|pages=271–288|doi=10.1039/DC9919100271|issn=0301-7249}} Seideman was made a Weizmann Fellow and a Fulbright Program Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. Here she worked with William H. Miller on mathematical method development.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/millergrp/alumni.html|title=::: Miller Research Group|website=www.cchem.berkeley.edu|access-date=2019-09-30}} In 1992 she joined the Ames Research Center as a Principal Investigator before being appointed a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada in 1993.{{Cite journal|last1=Gordon|first1=Robert J.|last2=Zhu|first2=Langchi|last3=Seideman|first3=Tamar|date=1999-12-01|title=Coherent Control of Chemical Reactions|journal=Accounts of Chemical Research|volume=32|issue=12|pages=1007–1016|doi=10.1021/ar970119l|issn=0001-4842}}

Seideman was made an associate research officer at the National Research Council of Canada in 1996. She was cross-appointed as a professor of chemistry at Queen's University. Here she developed the concepts of nonadiabatic alignment and molecular focusing in laser fields and the theory of time-resolved photoelectron angular distributions.{{Cite journal|last=Seideman|first=Tamar|date=2002|title=Time-Resolved Photoelectron Angular Distributions: Concepts, Applications, and Directions|journal=Annual Review of Physical Chemistry|volume=53|issue=1|pages=41–65|doi=10.1146/annurev.physchem.53.082101.130051|pmid=11972002|bibcode=2002ARPC...53...41S}} She collaborated with experimentalist coworkers on the problem of the molecular phase in two-pathway excitation experiments and on current-triggered surface nanochemistry.

Seideman was made a professor of chemistry at Northwestern University in 2003.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chemistry.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/profiles/tamar-seideman.html|title=Tamar Seideman: Department of Chemistry - Northwestern University|website=www.chemistry.northwestern.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}} Here she develops and applies quantum mechanical theories to understand phenomena including quantum transport and current-induced dynamics in molecular electronic devices; ultrafast nanoplasmonics and information guidance in the nanoscale; attosecond science and the interaction of matter with intense laser fields; and coherent control and coherence spectroscopies in isolated molecules and in

dissipative media. {{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0313638|title=NSF Award Search: Award#0313638 - Current-Triggered Dynamics in Molecular-Scale Devices|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=2019-09-30}} In other research, Seideman has explored coherent control of molecular dynamics and its extension to control of transport in the nanoscale. She proposed that current in nanoscale constructs can be used to drive molecular machines.{{Cite web|url=https://www.machinedesign.com/news/single-molecule-drives-nanomachines|title=Single molecule drives nanomachines|date=2006-01-12|website=Machine Design|language=en|access-date=2019-10-01}} Additionally, she has demonstrated it is possible to use a scanning tunnelling microscope to control surface reactions. In related work, Seideman showed that one can guide light using nanoparticle arrays to create custom nanoplasmonics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.2physics.com/2007/06/toward-coherent-control-in-nanoscale.html|title=2Physics: Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale|language=en|access-date=2019-10-01}}

Her recent work has developed theoretical and computational models to control the nanoscale properties of material systems.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1465201|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1465201 - Coherent and Incoherent Control in Material Systems|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=2019-09-30}} This has included an investigation of charge transport through molecular and nanoscale electronic materials in an effort to improve the efficiency of solar cells. To understand charge transport mechanisms, she has studied optically induced tunnelling through junctions.{{Cite journal|last1=Li|first1=Guangqi|last2=Fainberg|first2=Boris D.|last3=Seideman|first3=Tamar|date=2015-04-17|title=Optically induced transport through semiconductor-based molecular electronics|journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics|volume=142|issue=15|pages=154111|doi=10.1063/1.4917029|pmid=25903870|issn=0021-9606|bibcode=2015JChPh.142o4111L}} Her best known research is in the area of laser alignment. Originally introduced for isolated small molecules, this was recently extended to nonrigid molecules. dissipative media and condensed matter systems. In disordered assembly, the laser field can impart long-range orientational order to molecular layers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lasphys.com/workshops/lasphys13/plenary-speakers|title=Laser Physics Workshop|website=Laser Physics|access-date=2019-10-01}} In dense molecular assemblies, alignment can become a collective phenomenon with long range translational and orientational order. In polyatomic molecules alignment can be used to control torsional motions with a variety of new applications, including control of charge transport, energy transfer, axial chirality and reactivity. Seideman takes annually a visiting professor position at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Her awards and honours include ({{Cite web|url=https://www.physics.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/joint-faculty/tamar-seideman.html|title=Tamar Seideman: Department of Physics and Astronomy - Northwestern University|website=www.physics.northwestern.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}});

• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, Germany{{Cite web|url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/tamar-seideman/|title=Leopoldina members|language=de

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• Fellow of the American Physical Society{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}}
• Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/tamar-seideman/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Tamar Seideman|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-30}}
• Senior A. von Humboldt Research Award, Berlin, Germany
• Sackler Visiting Award, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• University of Hamburg Mildred Dresselhaus Award, Hamburg, Germany{{Cite web|url=http://www.cui-archiv.uni-hamburg.de/en/2013/05/mildred-dresselhaus-awardees-expected/|title=First Mildred Dresselhaus Awardees expected {{!}} CUI – The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging|website=www.cui-archiv.uni-hamburg.de|access-date=2019-09-30}}
• Weizmann Institute of Science Weston Professorship, Rehovot, Israel
• Journal of Physical Chemistry Celebration of Women Chemists{{Cite journal|last1=Schatz|first1=George C.|last2=McCoy|first2=Anne B.|last3=Shea|first3=Joan-Emma|last4=Murphy|first4=Catherine J.|last5=Scholes|first5=Gregory D.|date=2017-11-02|title=Virtual Issue in Honor of the 150th Birthday of Marie Curie: Highlighting Female Physical Chemists|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry B|volume=121|issue=43|pages=9983–9985|doi=10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09653|pmid=29092405|issn=1520-6106|bibcode=2017JPCA..121.8185S|doi-access=free}}
• Wegner Award, Haifa, Israel
• Fulbright Research Award, University of California Berkeley
• Chaim Weizmann Fellowship, University of California Berkeley
• J. F. Kennedy Award, Rehovot, Israel
• Daniel Brener Award, Rehovot, Israel
• Knesset of Israel Award, Jerusalem, Israel

She is the author of 311 publications, including;

• {{Cite book|title=Current-Driven Phenomena in Nanoelectronics|last=Seideman|first=Tamar|publisher=Stanford|year=2010|isbn=978-9814241502}}
• {{Cite journal|title=Colloquium: Aligning molecules with strong laser pulses|last=Seideman|first=Tamar|date=2003-04-17|journal=Reviews of Modern Physics|volume=75|issue=2|pages=543–557|doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.75.543|bibcode=2003RvMP...75..543S|s2cid=4655968 |url=https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/accepted/?id=f82b2219-f7d3-4076-b1ab-b05af566dbda}}
• {{Cite journal|title=Revival Structure of Aligned Rotational Wave Packets|last=Seideman|first=Tamar|date=1999-12-13|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=83|issue=24|pages=4971–4974|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4971|bibcode=1999PhRvL..83.4971S}}

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