Thomas Green

Prof. Tom Green grew up in northeast Pennsylvania and received his B.S. in chemistry from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA, in 2010. In 2016, he received his Ph.D. from Florida State University, where he used magnetic field-dependent spectroscopy and femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy to investigate the optical properties of monolayer-protected metal nanoclusters.  Following his graduate studies, Tom carried out three postdoctoral appointments in three countries.   First, working with Prof. Amber Krummel at Colorado State University, he used two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to investigate the structure and dynamics of molecular aggregates.  Next, Tom joined the Department of Physics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he used single-particle Raman spectroscopy to characterize the electric fields generated in high-index dielectric nanoparticles.  For his third postdoctoral position, Tom joined the molecular photonics group at the Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he used vibrational spectroscopy to investigate the structure of deeply supercooled liquid water.

Before joining the Whitman Chemistry Department as a visiting assistant professor, Tom spent two years as Visiting Assistant Professor of chemistry at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, where he taught courses in inorganic chemistry, applied plasmonics, and general chemistry.  Currently, Tom teaches courses in physical chemistry and general chemistry.