Dr Christian Hill - Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Current Positions

2009 - Present: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London.

As part of the EU-funded Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) consortium, UCL is developing a relational database implementation of the Harvard-Smithsonian HITRAN spectroscopic database.

I am an active developer for XSAMS, a project co-ordinated by the IAEA that aims to produce an XML Schema for the interoperable communication of atomic and molecular data.

For more details see my UCL research page.

2008 - Present: Stipendiary Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Somerville College, University of Oxford.

I teach Physical Chemistry to undergraduates in the first three years of their M.Chem. degree as part of the Oxford University tutorial system. I also set college exams (collections) and conduct admissions interviews with prospective candidates.

More details are available at my online tutorial resources page.

Former Positions

2000 - 2009: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Recent spectroscopic work has included the first complete determination of the hyperfine parameters of both nuclei in the NH⁺ ion-radical and a fit to a very high-quality FT-IR spectrum of BiH.

Experimental projects have involved high-resolution laboratory studies of molecular oxygen, water vapour and NO, and their van der Waals complexes in order to better understand their impact on the radiative properties of the atmosphere. The spectroscopic techniques used include Laser Magnetic Resonance (LMR), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR), and Fourier-Transform Microwave Spectroscopy.

2004 - 2009: Fellow and Senior Tutor for Chemistry at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.

At Corpus Christi, I was a member of the college's Governing Body and Academic Committee and was Personal Tutor and Director of Studies to the college's undergraduate chemists. With the other college tutors, I conducted admissions interviews with prospective candidates.

2005 - 2009: Stipendiary Lecturer and Personal Tutor at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

2001 - 2006: Stipendiary Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at New College, University of Oxford.

Education

1996 - 2000: Ph.D. Atmospheric Chemistry, Christ's College, University of Cambridge.

"Active and Passive Remote Sensing of the Troposphere: Broadband Lidar Measurements of NO₂ and Studies of Anomalous Atmospheric Absorption" - Laser remote sensing of tropospheric pollution with a novel ground-based LIDAR instrument, developed at the Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory.

1993 - 1996: BA(Hons) Chemistry, Class I, Christ's College, University of Cambridge.

Recent Publications

A complete publication list is available here.

1. H.-W. Hübers, K. M. Evenson, C. Hill, and J. M. Brown, "The rotational spectrum of the NH⁺ radical in its X²Π and a⁴Σ^- states", J. Chem. Phys. 131, 034311, 2009.
2. Ya. V. Pavlenko, G. J. Harris, J. Tennyson, H. R. A. Jones, J. M. Brown, C. Hill, and L. A. Yakovina, "The electronic bands of CrD, CrH, MgD and MgH: application to the "deuterium test"", Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 386(3), 1338-1346, 2008.
3. C. Hill and J. M. Brown, "Determination of the spin-spin centrifugal distortion parameters for deuterated selenoformaldehyde in its first excited triplet state", J. Mol. Spectrosc. 241, 15-17, 2007.
4. C. Hill and J. M. Brown, "A reduced form of the spin-spin centrifugal distortion Hamiltonian for orthorhombic asymmetric top molecules", J. Mol. Spectrosc. 241, 7-14, 2007.
5. C. Hill and J. M. Brown, "Extended perturbation formulae for Jahn-Teller molecules", J. Mol. Spectrosc. 229, 207-215, 2005.

Additional Skills

Computing

Extensive experience with Linux/UNIX and Mac OS X, and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Extensive scientific programming experience in Fortran, Python and C++, database management with MySQL, typesetting with LaTeX, and website development and maintenance with HTML, XML, CSS and Django.

I created and maintain the official website of Natalie Haynes, www.nataliehaynes.com, a successful columnist and author.

Outdoor Activities

Hiking, trekking, rock-climbing (to F6b, sport), and mountaineering (to Alpine AD). Recent trips have included Mexico, Uganda, Nepal and Bhutan. More details: mountains.

Referees

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