Claire Vallance Explained

Claire Vallance is a professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Hertford College,^{[1] [2]} and past President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In collaboration with professor Mark Brouard and others, she created the PImMS (Pixel Imaging Mass Spectrometry) sensor, used for time-of-flight particle imaging^[3] and recently featured in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Research Frontiers report. She is co-founder of the spin-out company Oxford HighQ, which is developing next-generation chemical and nanoparticle sensors based on optical microcavity technology. Vallance's research spans chemical reaction dynamics, optical microcavity spectroscopy, and applications of spectroscopy and imaging in medical diagnostics. She is also an accomplished musician^[4] and triathlete.^{[5] [6]}

Education

Claire Vallance attended Marlborough Girls' College in Blenheim, New Zealand. She then studied Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Music at the University of Canterbury, where she completed a B.Sc.(hons) degree in 1995, graduating first in her year. She studied for a Ph.D. under the supervision of Peter Harland, working in gas-phase molecular dynamics,^[7] and graduated in early 1999. Upon completion of her studies, she returned to Oxford to take up a Violette and Samuel Glasstone Fellowship in the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory and a Junior Research Fellowship at St. Catherine's College.^[8]

Honours and awards

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016

Books

• Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics. RSC Press, 2010. (Joint editor with Mark Brouard)^[9]
• Astrochemistry: from the Big Bang to the Present Day, World Scientific Press, 2017.
• An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics, Morgan-Claypool Publishing, 2017
• An Introduction to the Gas Phase, Morgan-Claypool Publishing, 2018

External links

• Web site: The Fastest Camera in the World: the PImMS sensor. University of Oxford. 15 July 2015. 20 December 2017. YouTube.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr C. Vallance - Research Guides. Research.chem.ox.ac.uk. 20 December 2017.
2. Web site: Professor Claire Vallance - Hertford College. Hertford.ox.ac.uk. 20 December 2017.
3. Web site: New Head of Department for Chemistry — Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences Division. Mpls.ox.ac.uk. 20 December 2017.
4. News: Pianist Claire Vallance returns to first musical love at orchestra show in Oxford. The Oxford Times. 20 December 2017.
5. Web site: Popular Royal Wootton Bassett Sprint Triathlon hailed success. Staff Reporter. 2017-05-22. Swindon 24 Swindon News, What's On, Events, Jobs and More. en-GB. 2019-09-13.
6. Web site: Oldbury White Horse Triathon Race Report. LPSevents. en-US. 2019-09-13.
7. Vallance . Claire . 1999 . Doctoral thesis . Studies of elementary collision processes under single collision conditions . UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury . 10092/8001 . 10.26021/5899 .
8. Web site: Professor Claire Vallance . Hertford College . 7 March 2020.
9. Book: Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics. 2 December 2011. Pubs.rsc.org. 9781849735308 . 20 December 2017. Brouard . Mark . Vallance . Claire .