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R. J. Dwayne Miller
Birth Name:Robert John Dwayne Miller
Birth Place:Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Thesis Title:Electronic excited state transport and trapping in disordered systems
Thesis Url:https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1077969
Thesis Year:1983
Doctoral Advisor:Michael D. Fayer
Academic Advisors:Bryan R. Henry
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R. J. Dwayne Miller is a Canadian chemist and a professor at the University of Toronto. His focus is in physical chemistry and biophysics. He is most widely known for his work in ultrafast laser science, time-resolved spectroscopy, and the development of new femtosecond electron sources. His research has enabled real-time observation of atomic motions in materials during chemical processes and has shed light on the structure-function correlation that underlies biology.[11]

Early life and education

Miller was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[12] In 1978, he received a B.Sc. in chemistry and immunology at the University of Manitoba where Bryan R. Henry was his advisor. He completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford University in 1983 under the supervision of Michael D. Fayer. His thesis work focused on energy transport in model systems of photosynthesis and is titled Part I, Electronic excited state transport and trapping in disordered systems; Part II, Laser induced ultrasonics.

Academic career

Following graduation, Miller gained a faculty position at the University of Rochester and immediately took a 12-month leave to do postdoctoral research in solid state physics as a NATO science fellow at the Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique (renamed to Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique in 2011[13]) at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France under the direction of Hans Peter Trommsdorff and Robert Romenstain.[14] He returned to University of Rochester in 1984 as an assistant professor of chemistry. He was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and then full professor of chemistry and optics in 1992. In 1995, he moved back to Canada and relocated his research group to the departments of chemistry and physics at the University of Toronto. In 2006, he was appointed as a University Professor [15] and later as a Distinguished Faculty Research Chair.

From 2010-2014, R. J. D. Miller was the director of the Max Planck Group, Centre for Free Electron Laser Science/DESY, University of Hamburg. From 2014-2020, he was the co-founding director of Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany.[16]

In 2023, he was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society[17] and has been a fellow of Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1999 and 2016, respectively. He is also a member of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Canadian Association of Physicists, American Physical Society, and Optical Society of America.

Science outreach

Beyond his scientific work, Miller is dedicated to the promotion of science education through outreach to school children. He founded and is a board member of Science Rendezvous, an annual science festival that aims to expose general public to science and technology.[18]

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  1. Web site: Presidential Young Investigator Award . 5 October 2017 . National Science Foundation.
  2. Web site: Past Fellows . 5 October 2017 . Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  3. Web site: Fellows . 5 October 2017 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  4. Web site: Search Fellows . 5 October 2017 . Royal Society of Canada.
  5. Web site: John C. Polanyi Award . 5 October 2017 . Chemical Institute of Canada.
  6. Web site: CIC Medal . 5 October 2017 . Chemical Institute of Canada.
  7. Web site: Past Award Winners . 5 October 2017 . Royal Society of Canada.
  8. Web site: E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy . 5 October 2017 . American Chemical Society.
  9. Web site: Centenary Prize 2016 Winner . 5 October 2017 . Royal Society of Chemistry.
  10. Web site: Research in Laser Science and Applications Prizes . 8 July 2018 . European Physical Society Quantum Electronics and Optics Division.
  11. Web site: R. J. Dwayne Miller . 5 October 2017 . Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
  12. News: Winnipeg chemist earns prestigious British science award . 5 October 2017. Winnipeg Free Press . 2016-05-09 . Paul . Alexandra .
  13. Web site: History of LiPhy . 6 October 2017 . Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique.
  14. Web site: R. J. Dwayne Miller . 5 October 2017 . Miller Group.
  15. Web site: Professor RJ Dwayne Miller . 5 October 2017 . University of Toronto.
  16. Web site: Prof. Dr. R. J. Dwayne Miller . 5 October 2017 . Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.
  17. Web site: Dwayne Miller . 2023-05-26 . royalsociety.org.
  18. Web site: Prof. Dr. R. J. Dwayne Miller . 5 October 2017 . Science Rendezvous.

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