Hanna Reisler

Hanna Reisler is the Lloyd Armstrong Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California. Reisler is the first holder of the new Lloyd Armstrong Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering endowed by the women in science and engineering (WiSE) program. An internationally recognized chemist with a distinguished research program, she studies detailed mechanisms of chemical reactions in the gas and condensed phases by using laser and molecular-beam techniques. In particular, she is interested in identifying primary steps and nascent product state distributions, and understanding reaction mechanisms at the molecular level. Her research interests are relevant to environmental, atmospheric and combustion chemistry as well as to the fundamental chemistry of new energy sources.