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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions to the understanding of photodissociation dynamics of excited states and especially in the application of this understanding to processes in the atmosphere
  • 2004 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1981 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Veronica Vaida is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans across multiple intersecting fields including Physics and Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Chemistry. Within these disciplines, their work often focuses on specialized subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Atmospheric Science; and Spectroscopy. Additional engagement includes areas like Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering.

Their primary research topics involve Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Origins and Evolution of Life, Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies.

Veronica Vaida has published extensively, with frequent appearance in scientific journals such as:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry

Recent notable papers include:

  • Water-Air Interfaces as Environments to Address the Water Paradox in Prebiotic Chemistry: A Physical Chemistry Perspective, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Chemistry and Photochemistry of Pyruvic Acid at the Air-Water Interface, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Conformer-Specific Photolysis of Pyruvic Acid and the Effect of Water, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Gas-Phase Reaction Kinetics of Pyruvic Acid with OH Radicals: The Role of Tunneling, Complex Formation, and Conformational Structure, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Accelerated Zymonic Acid Formation from Pyruvic Acid at the Interface of Aqueous Nanodroplets, 2024, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, including Alexandra M. Deal, Benjamin N. Frandsen, Keaten Kappes, Sandra L. Blair, and Jean-François Doussin.

Veronica Vaida has received several recognitions throughout their career, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  • E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2011
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2004
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2004, with citation for contributions to understanding photodissociation dynamics and their atmospheric applications
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2004
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1981

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric processing of organic aerosols

    G. Barney Ellison;Adrian F. Tuck;Veronica Vaida

  • The influence of organic films at the air-aqueous boundary on atmospheric processes.

    D. J. Donaldson;Veronica Vaida

  • Perspective: Water cluster mediated atmospheric chemistry

    Veronica Vaida

  • Atmospheric aerosols as prebiotic chemical reactors

    Christopher M. Dobson;G. Barney Ellison;Adrian F. Tuck;Veronica Vaida

  • New evidence of an organic layer on marine aerosols

    Heikki Tervahattu;Kari Hartonen;Veli-Matti Kerminen;Kaarle Kupiainen

  • Direct absorption spectroscopy of jet‐cooled polyenes. II. The 1 1B+u←1 1A−g transitions of butadienes and hexatrienes

    Doreen G Leopold;Doreen G Leopold;R. D. Pendley;J. L. Roebber;J. L. Roebber;R. J. Hemley

  • In situ observation of peptide bond formation at the water–air interface

    Elizabeth C. Griffith;Veronica Vaida

  • Photolysis of Sulfuric Acid Vapor by Visible Solar Radiation

    V. Vaida;H. G. Kjaergaard;P. E. Hintze;D. J. Donaldson

  • Kinetics and products of the reaction of gas-phase ozone with anthracene adsorbed at the air–aqueous interface

    Baagi T. Mmereki;D.J. Donaldson;J.B. Gilman;T.L. Eliason

  • The Photoreactivity of Chlorine Dioxide

    Veronica Vaida;John D. Simon

  • Photochemistry of aqueous pyruvic acid

    Elizabeth C. Griffith;Barry K. Carpenter;Richard K. Shoemaker;Veronica Vaida

  • Physicochemical Properties of Hydrated Complexes in the Earth's Atmosphere

    V. Vaida;J. E. Headrick

  • Hydrated Complexes: Relevance to Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate

    Veronica Vaida;Henrik G. Kjaergaard;Karl J. Feierabend

  • Fatty acids on continental sulfate aerosol particles

    H. Tervahattu;J. Juhanoja;V. Vaida;A. F. Tuck

  • Photoisomerization of OCIO: a possible mechanism for polar ozone depletion

    Veronica Vaida;Susan Solomon;Erik C. Richard;Eckart Rühl;Eckart Rühl

  • Atmospheric absorption of near infrared and visible solar radiation by the hydrogen bonded water dimer

    V. Vaida;J. S. Daniel;H. G. Kjaergaard;L. M. Goss

  • Dissociation of NH3 to NH2+H

    M. I. McCarthy;P. Rosmus;H.‐J. Werner;P. Botschwina

  • The Hydration of Formic Acid

    Simone Aloisio;Paul E. Hintze;Veronica Vaida

  • Complexes of Importance to the Absorption of Solar Radiation

    Henrik G. Kjaergaard;Timothy W. Robinson;Daryl L. Howard;John S. Daniel

  • Theoretical A 1A‘2–X 1A1 absorption and emission spectrum of ammonia

    P. Rosmus;P. Botschwina;H.‐J. Werner;V. Vaida

Frequent Co-Authors

D. J. Donaldson
D. J. Donaldson University of Toronto
Henrik G. Kjaergaard
Henrik G. Kjaergaard University of Copenhagen
Adrian F. Tuck
Adrian F. Tuck Imperial College London
Gregory J. Frost
Gregory J. Frost National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ron Naaman
Ron Naaman Weizmann Institute of Science
Jessica B. Gilman
Jessica B. Gilman National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Barry K. Carpenter
Barry K. Carpenter Cardiff University
Lewis J. Rothberg
Lewis J. Rothberg University of Rochester
Steven D. Colson
Steven D. Colson Yale University
Anne Jefferson
Anne Jefferson University of Colorado Boulder

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