Governor’s Lecturer
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
Department of Chemistry
Exhibition Road
London, SW7 2AY
United Kingdom

Phone: + 44 (0) 207 594 5899
Fax: + 44 (0) 207 594 5880
email: s.yaliraki@ic.ac.uk
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Education

• Harvard University
  • A.B. in Chemistry, Magna cum Laude, 1988-1992.
     
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, 1992-1997.
     
• Northwestern University
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 1997-2000.

• Governor's Lectureship, Imperial College (2000-2003).
• Ford Scholarship, Harvard College (1991-1992).
• New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education Scholarship, Department of Physics, Yale University (1990).
• Harvard College Scholarship and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Certificate of Merit (1989-92).
• Athens College Science Award (1988).

Research Experience

• Imperial College of science technology & medicine, Department of Chemistry
  • Lecturer, 2000- present.
    Theory of mesoscopic systems in complex environments. Self-assembly of biological and nanoscale material systems. Electronic and transport properties of nanoscale assemblies.
    Currently group consists of five postdoctoral and postgraduate students.
     
• University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Chemistry
  • Visiting Scholar, Summer 2000-present.
    Collaboration with Professor James R. Heath.
    Theoretical studies on assembly and transport of molecular-based circuitry.
     
• Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 1997-2000.
    Group of Professor Mark A. Ratner.
    Research included transport and thermodynamic properties of mesoscopic systems; dynamics of single molecules on surfaces and in liquids.
     
• Harvard University, Department of Chemistry
  • Research Fellow, 1990-1992.
    Laboratory of Professor William Klemperer.
    Theoretical analysis of Stark-shifted rotational transitions of CH₃I. Performed molecular beam spectroscopy experiments to determine the effect of the nuclear quadrupole on its dipole moment.
     
• Yale University, Department of Physics
  • Research Fellow, Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Summer 1990.
    Laboratory of Professor Christopher J. Lister.
    Designed and built equipment and took measurements for the development of a novel technique to date paintings based on the x-ray fluorescence of metals in pigments.

Grants

• As Principal Investigator, currently funded by:
   
  • European Union 5th RTD Growth Programme;
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK;
  • Medical Research Council, UK;
  • Office of Naval Research, USA.

Selected relevant publications

• M.R. Diehl, S.N. Yaliraki, R.A. Beckman, M. Barahona, J.R. Heath.
  Self Assembled Deterministic Carbon Nanotube Wiring Networks.
  Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 41, 351-356 (2002). (VIP).
   
• R. Tucknott and S.N. Yaliraki.
  Aggregation Properties of Carbon Nanotubes at Interfaces.
  Chem. Phys. 281, 455- 463 (2002). (Invited Paper, Special Issue on Processes in Molecular Wires).
   
• S.N. Yaliraki and M.A. Ratner.
  Interplay of Topology and Chemical Stability on the Electronic Transport of Molecular Junctions.
  Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 960, 153 (2002).
   
• S.N. Yaliraki, A.E. Roitberg, C. Gonzalez, V. Mujica, M.A. Ratner.
  The injecting energy at molecule/metal interfaces: implications for conductance of molecular junctions from an ab-initio molecular description.
  J. Chem.Phys. 111, 6997-7002 (1999).
   
• S.N. Yaliraki, M. Kemp, M.A. Ratner.
  Conductance of Molecular Wires: Influence of Molecule-Electrode Binding.
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 3428-3434 (1999).

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