5.112 Principles of Chemical Science

About The Professor

Sylvia T. Ceyer completed her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, investigating Molecular Beam Photoionization and Gas-Surface Scattering under the advisement of Professors Y. T. Lee and G. A. Somorjai in 1979 after receiving her B.A. from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Following her graduate work, she received a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. From there, she accepted an assistant professorship in the Chemistry Department at MIT, and in 1987 earned a full professorship. She is currently the J. C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry.