Queens, New York - March 24, 1956.

B.S., Chemistry, cum laude, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1978

Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983 with Prof. F. F. Crim

Research Associate, The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, 1984-1986 with Prof. D. H. Levy

Dean, Faculty of Basic Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2004-

Director, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2004

Director, Institute of Molecular and Biological Chemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2002-2003

Head, Department of Chemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1997-1999, 2001

Director, Institute of Physical Chemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1995-1996

Professor of Chemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1994-present

Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 1993-1994

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Universitiy of Rochester, 1992-1993

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 1986-1992

Sohio Graduate Fellow (1981-82)

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Distinguished New Faculty Award (1986)

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1991-93)

Coblentz Society Award (1992)

Student Association Teacher of the Year Award (1992-1993)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow (1993)

Fellow, American Physical Society (1998-)

APLE prize for best EPFL invention (1999), Laser Isotope Separation Method Employing Isotopically Selective Collisional Relaxation

Experimental chemical physics--particularly multiple-laser spectroscopy, spectroscopy of biological molecules in the gase phase, elementary reaction kinetics,intra- and intermolecular energy transfer, laser isotope separation