DR. JAAN LAANE
PUBLICATIONS
GROUP MEMBERS
JAAN LAANE (b. 6-20-1942; Paide, Estonia; naturalized U. S. citizen 1956)
EDUCATION
University of Illinois(Urbana), B. S. in Chemistry (June, 1964); Highest Distinction in Chemistry; Kendall Award (Outstanding Senior in Chemistry) and Highest University Honors (Bronze Tablet); Research Advisor: T. L. Brown
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Chemistry (August, 1967); Kodak Award For Outstanding Chemistry Graduate Student (1967); Research Advisor: R. C. Lord
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting Staff Member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (summers) 1964-68
Assistant Professor, Tufts University 1967-68
Assistant, Associate (1972), and Full (1976) Professor, Texas A&M University 1968-
Visiting Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany (Humboldt U. S. Senior Scientist Award) 1979-80, 1981, 1983
Visiting Professor, University of Ulm, Germany 1986
Visiting Professor, Stanford University 2002
Visiting Professor, University of Colorado (JILA) 2002
ADMINISTRATION
Chairman, Division of Physical and Nuclear Chemistry 1977-87, 1993-94
Speaker, Faculty Senate, Texas A&M University 1985-86
Associate Dean of Science (graduate studies) 1994-97
Director, Institute for Pacific Asia (Texas A&M) 1987-90
Exec. Deputy Director/Sr. Policy Advisor, Texas A&M, Japan 1990-94
Board of Directors, Alexander von Humboldt Association of America 2004-06
President-Elect, Alexander von Humboldt Association of America 2005-07
EDITORSHIP: Editor, Journal of Molecular Structure 1994-
HONORS
AND AWARDS
E.J. James Scholar (1960-64); A.P. Sloan Scholar (1962-64); Illinois State Scholar (1960-1964); W. Morova Scholar (1960-62); Phi Eta Sigma (1961); Phi Kappa Phi (1962); Chemical Rubber Award (1961); A.S. Larsen Award (1961); Tomahawk (Activity Honorary, 1961); Kendall Award (The Outstanding Senior in Chemistry, 1964); University Honors (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964); Bronze Tablet (Highest University Honors, 1964); Phi Lambda Upsilon (1963); National Science Foundation Fellow (1964-67); Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1964-65); Kodak Award (The Outstanding Graduate Student in Chemistry, 1967); Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award (1979); Association of Former Students Teaching Award (1982); National Science Council Lecturer (Taiwan, 1984); Fellow, American Physical Society (1996); Fellow, American Institute of Chemists (1987); Phi Beta Delta, International Honor Society (1987), president (1990-91); Korean Chemical Society Lecturer (1989); Waseda University (Tokyo) Lecturer (1996); Elected to Estonian Academy of Science (1996); University of Valladolid (Spain) Lecturer (1997); University of Ulm (Germany) Lectureship (1997); Robert A. Welch Foundation Lectureship (1998-1999); Honorary Doctorate, University of Tartu (Estonia), 2000; Frontiers in Molecular Spectroscopy Lectures, Ohio State University, 2003; EUCMOS Lectureship (Krakow, 2004); Takahashi Lectureship (Tokyo, 2005); E.R. Lippincott Award, 2005.
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS: 260 including two books and 14 invited book chapters.
TOTAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: approximately 400 including plenary and invited conference presentations/lectures.
GRADUATE STUDENTS (Ph.D. and M.S.) SUPERVISED: Graduate student degrees: 33 Ph.D.; 3 M.S.; Undergraduate researchers: more than 50; Post-doctoral: approximately 20; Visiting faculty researchers: 14.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
American Chemical Society, Texas A&M Section, Chair (1977), Alt. Councillor; Coblentz Society, Board of Managers (1983-87), Treasurer (1985-88); Chairman, Physical Chemistry, Southwest Regional American Chemical Society Meeting (Lubbock, 1984); Program Advisory Committee and or Session Chair for numerous spectroscopy meetings; President, Phi Beta Delta Honor Society, TAMU chapter (1990-91). Director, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Structures and Conformations of Non-Rigid Molecules.” Ulm, Germany, September, 1992. Co-organizer for symposium on “Structure and Dynamics of Electronic Excited States” at Pacifichem ’95 Conference (Honolulu). International Advisory Board, European Conference on Molecular Spectroscopy; International Advisory Committee, International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy (The Ohio State University); President, Texas Section (2001-2002), National Board of Directors (2004-2006), President-Elect (2005-2007), Alexander von Humboldt Society of America.