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Dr. Solomon Bililign
Professor of Physics
Director-NOAA-ISET Center

http://www.epp.noaa.gov/

336-285-2328; 336-334-7424 (Lab)
Gibbs 302/Marteena 306, Lab -IRC-005
Bililign@ncat.edu/ bililignsol@gmail.com

Education

• Ph. D., Physics, University of Iowa, 1991
• M.S., Physics, Addis Ababa University, 1983
• BS: Physics Education, Addis Ababa University, 1977

Areas of Research

• Spectroscopy of Transition State Dynamics
• Laser Spectroscopy and Photodynamics
• Electronic Structure Calculations
• Metal-ion chemistry within clusters, formation and chemistry of nanoparticles

Current Research Focus:

Focus: Characterizing organic and inorganic acids and aerosol in the atmosphere emitted by Biomass burning and the study their impact on climate.

Negative Ion proton transfer mass spectrometry to Measure: a) Acidities of gas-phase acids; b) Rate of H-transfer; c) Water cluster characterization. The goal ito get estimates of the free energy of hydration of carboxylate ions, and determination of the effective gas phase acidity of hydrated carboxylate ions. (NSF- Funded

Investigate vibrational overtone initiated photodissociation processes that are significant sources of atmospheric radicals using cavity ring down spectroscopy. The vibrational O-H overtone absorption cross sections of carboxylic acids and other OH-containing species are necessary quantities to calculate the photochemical reaction rate constant (J) for reactions initiated by the excitation of the O-H overtone. (NOAA, NSF Funded

Measurement of the Henry's law coefficient and first order loss rate of Isocyanic Acid in Water Solutions-Solubility studies (NOAA-Funded

Measurement of optical properties of biomass aerosols using cavity ring down spectroscopy ( DoD-Current Funding)

Atmospheric Chemistry

• 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in science math and engineering mentoring http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122273&org=NSF&from=news
• 2010: Selected member of the 2010 class of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellow-University of Iowa: http://clas.uiowa.edu/alumni/2010-alumni-fellows
• 2006: Teacher of the Year, College of Arts and Sciences, NCAT
• 2002: JILA visiting fellowship,
• 2002: Named Outstanding Senior Researcher for A&T, 2001-2002: http://www.ncat.edu/~univrel/publications/copy/attodaysummer02.pdf
• 1998: Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, NCAMP (NSF),
• 1998: Faculty Award, National Honors, College of Arts and Sciences, 

Memberships

• Ethiopian Physical Society: http://www.aps.org/units/fip/newsletters/200906/bililign.cfm
• American Physical Society
• American Chemical Society
• National Society of Black Physicists
• American Meteorological Society

Photos

2010 and 2011 Awardees of the Presidential award for excellence in science. mathematics and engineering Mentoring	2010 PAESMEN Awardees with the President	Bililign with Director of the National Science Foundation and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology
Center directors and center scientists with the Secretary of Commerce	NOAA Administrator with Center directors	UNC President Tom Ross and Bililign

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