Douglas Ober
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests
Professor Ober's teaching and research interests span physical chemistry, specifically high-resolution spectroscopy, kinetics, and reaction dynamics, applied to metrology development and problems in planetary science.
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Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Ober worked at Marathon Fusion as a research engineer, helping to develop instrumentation for technology supporting the nuclear fusion fuel cycle. Previously he served as a post-doc and graduate student in the Okumura lab at California Institute of Technology.
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, USA
- B.A. in Chemistry, Boston University, USA
- Tzu-Ling Chen, Charles R Markus, Douglas C Ober, Lukasz Sterczewski, Yi-Jan Huang, Michael Lisano, Chadwick Canedy, Igor Vurgaftman, Clifford Frez, Jerry Meyer, Mahmood Bagheri, Mitchio Okumura: “Direct Frequency Comb Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy using Vernier Filtering” J Phys Chem, 129(5), Jan 24, 2025, 1452-1458, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c05188.
- Tyler Nguyen, Douglas C Ober, Aadarsh Balaji, Frank W Maiwald, Robert Hodyss, Stojan Madzunkov, Mitchio Okumura, Deacon J. Nemchick: “Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy of Water-Tagged Ions with a Widely Tunable Quantum Cascade Laser for Planetary Science Applications” J. Anal. Chem, 96(22), May 22, 2024, 8875-8879, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c01023.
- Lukasz A Sterczewski, Tzu-Ling Chen, Douglas C Ober, Charles R Markus, Chadwick L Canedy, Igor Vurgaftman, Clifford Frez, Jerry R. Meyer, Mitchio Okumura, Mahmood Bagheri: “Cavity-Enhanced Vernier Spectroscopy with a Chip-Scale Mid-Infrared Frequency Comb”, ACS Photonics, 9(3), Feb 9, 2022, 994–1001, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01849.
- Tzu-Ling Chen, Douglas C Ober, Robin Miri, Thinh Q Bui, Linhan Shen, Mitchio Okumura: “Optically Switched Dual-Wavelength Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer for High-Precision Isotope Ratio Measurements of Methane δD in the Near Infrared”, Anal. Chem., 93(16), Apr 12, 2021, 6375–84, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c05090.