Professor
Department of Chemistry
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4630
(509) 335-7867
kipeters@wsu.edu

Education

1983: B.S. (Magna cum Laude) Seattle University, Seattle, Washington
Major: Chemistry

1990: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Thesis advisor: R. Claude Woods
Thesis title: Ab initio calculations of the rotational and rotational-vibrational spectra of molecular ions

Professional Experience

1990-1992: Postdoctoral fellow, Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany (H.-J. Werner)

1992-1994: DOE postdoctoral fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (T.H. Dunning, Jr.)

1994-2002: Affiliate staff scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

1994-2000: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Washington State University

1995: Visiting scientist, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany

2000-2004: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Washington State University

2004-present: Professor, Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, WSU

Professional Recognition

1995: Recipient of a NSF CAREER award

1996: Invited speaker, Symposium on Bimolecular Interactions of Small Free Radicals, ACS Fall National Meeting, Orlando, FL

1998: Invited speaker, 1st Annual Environmental Chemistry Workshop, UC-San Diego

2000: Invited speaker, Atomic & Molecular Interactions Gordon Conference, New London, NH

2001: Invited speaker, Gordon Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer, Ventura, CA

2002: Invited speaker, Symposium on Frontiers in Chemical Dynamics, ACS Spring National Meeting, Orlando, FL

2002: Session chair, Symposium on Advances in Electron Correlation Methodology, ACS Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL

2003: Invited speaker, CCP6 Specialist Workshop, University College London

2003: Invited speaker, Symposium on Electron Correlation, Bad Herrenalb, Germany

2004: Invited speaker, Symposium on Molecular Modeling in the Environment, ACS Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2005: Invited speaker, Quantitative Quamtum Chemistry, An International Workshop in Honor of Prof. Thom H. Dunning, Jr., Santa Fe, NM

2006: Invited speaker, Interplay of Theory and Experiment in Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, a Symposium in Honor of Pavel Rosmus, Czec J. Heyrovský Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

2007: Invited speaker, SPP1145 Workshop on Highly Accurate Calculations of Molecular Electronic Structure, Bad Herrenalb, Germany

2008: Invited speaker, New Challenges for Theory in Chemical Dynamics, Telluride, CO

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