Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 1992-1997.
Chemistry Graduate Program with Professor Christopher J. Cramer.
Thesis: Quantum Mechanical Continuum Solvation Models
Bachelor of Science Cum Laude. University of Minnesota, Duluth. 1990-1992.
Major: Chemistry, Minor: Computer Science
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. 1988-1990.
Research Experience – Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak Company 1997-Present
Quantum Mechanical studies of organic molecules using ab initio, density functional theory, and semiempirical methods:
conformational analysis, Raman and IR spectra, 1H, 13C and 14,15N NMR shielding, absorption spectra, tautomeric equilibria, molecular orbital analysis, singlet-triplet gap energies, reaction paths, solvation modeling, oxidation/reduction potentials
Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships models and techniques including:
biological toxicity, partial least squares, genetic algorithms, multivariate adaptive regression splines, tree models, descriptor generation
Molecular Mechanics Force-Field development for rapid optimization of organic molecules
Familiar with Gaussian, PQS, Jaguar, Mopac, Amsol, Spartan, PCModel, Cerius2
Multi-platform System Administration including LINUX Beowulf clusters, SGI, Digital UNIX, IBM, SUN, and Windows
Python, UNIX and DOS scripting, FORTRAN77, queuing systems, parallel computing
General Chemistry Enrichment, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 1994 and 1995.
Six week minority retention program through the Health Careers Opportunity Program
Determined syllabus, wrote and delivered lectures, quizzes and tests, assigned grades
General Chemistry Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 1992-1993.
Wrote and delivered lab recitations, supervised labs, graded labs and exams
Project leader of OLED materials research project, Eastman Kodak Company, 2006-present.
Led project of 6-9 chemists, physicists and technicians with $1.5 million budget
Set technical strategy and activity directions, developed external interactions, gave performance appraisals and recommended promotions, performed project management including: setting goals and milestones, risk management and Six Sigma training
Overend Award, Outstanding Physical Chemistry Graduate Student (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), 1995
Kodak Graduate Fellowship (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), 1994-1997
American Institute of Chemists Outstanding Graduate (University of Minnesota, Duluth), 1992
Presidential Scholar (University of North Dakota), 1988-1990
National Merit Scholar, 1988-1992
Smith, E. L., Phillips, J. A., Cramer, C. J., Giesen, D. J.; A Short - Yet Very Weak Dative Bond: Structure, Bonding, and Energetic Properties of N2–BH3 J. Phys. Chem. A, Submitted for publication.
Kondakova, M. E., Deaton, J. C., Pawlik, T. D., Giesen, D. J., Kondakov, D. Y., Young, R. H., Royster, T. L., Comfort, D. L., Shore, J. D.; Highly efficient fluorescent-phosphorescent triplet-harvesting hybrid OLEDs J. App. Phys., Accepted for publication.
Ren, X., Giesen, D. J., Rajeswaran, M., Madaras, M.; Synthesis, Characterization, and Physical Properties of Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes with 2-Phenylthiophene or 2-Phenylfuran Ligands Organometallics, 28, 6079 (2009).
Shukla, D., Welter, T. R., Robello, D. R., Giesen, D. J., Lenhard, J. R., Ahearn, W. G., Meyer, D. M., Rajeswaran, M.; Dioxapyrene-Based Organic Semiconductors for Organic Field Effect Transistors J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 14482 (2009).
Pawlik, T. D., Kondakova, M. E., Giesen, D. J., Deaton, J. C., Kondakov, D. Y.; Charge Carriers And Triplets In OLED Devices Studied by Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance J. of the SID, 17, 279 (2009).
Hatwar, T. K., Kondakova, M. E., Giesen, D. J., Spindler, J. P.; OLED Materials and Device Architectures for Full-Color Displays and Solid-State Lighting in Organic Electronics: Materials, Processing, Devices and Applications (ed. Shatkin, A.) 433 CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (2009).
Rajeswaran, M., Blanton, T. N., Tang C. W., Lenhart, W. C., Switalski, S. C., Giesen, D. J., Antalek, B. J., Pawlik T. D., Kondakov, D. Y., Zumbulyadis, N., Young, R. H.; Structural, Thermal, and Spectral Characterization of the different crystalline forms of Alq3, tris(quinolin-8-olato)aluminum(III), an Electroluminescent Material in OLED Technology Polyhedron, 28, 835 (2009).
Kondakova, M. E., Pawlik, T. D., Young, R. Y., Giesen, D. J., Kondakov, D. Y., Brown, C. T., Deaton, J. C., Lenhard, J. R., Klubek, K. P.; High-efficiency, low-voltage phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode devices with mixed hosts J. App. Phys., 104, 094501 (2008).
Rajeswaran, M., Blanton, T. N., Giesen, D. J., R.Whitcomb, D., Zumbulyadis, N., Antalek, B. J., Neumann, M. M., Misture, S. T.; Azine bridged silver coordination polymers: Powder X-ray diffraction route to crystal structure determination of silver benzotriazole J. Solid State Chem., 179, 1053 (2005).
Phillips, J. A., Giesen, D. J., Wells, N. P., Halfen, J. A., Knutson, C. K., Wrass, J. P.; Condensed-Phase Effects on the Structure and Bonding of C6H5CN-BF3 and (CH3)3CCN-BF3: IR Spectra, Crystallography, and Computations J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 8199 (2005).
Giesen, D. J., Phillips, J. A.; Structure, Bonding and Vibrational Frequencies of CH3CN-BF3: New Insight into Medium Effects and the Discrepancy between the Experimental and Theoretical Geometries J. Phys. Chem. A Feature Article 107, 4009 (2003).
Rajeswaran, M., Blanton, T. N., Zumbulyadis, N., Giesen, D. J., Conesa-Moratilla, C., Misture, S. T., Stephens, P. W., Huq, A.; Three-Dimensional Structure Determination of N-(p-Tolyl)-dodecylsulfonamide from Powder Diffraction Data and Validation of Structure Using Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 124, 14450 (2002).
Giesen, D. J., Zumbulyadis, N.; A Hybrid Quantum Mechanical and Empirical Model for the Prediction of Isotropic 13C Shielding Constants of Organic Molecules Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 4, 5498 (2002).
Mason, M. G., Tang, C. W., Hung, L. S., Raychaudhuri, P., Madathil, J., Giesen, D. J., Yan, L., Le, Q. T., Gao, Y., Lee, S. T., Liao, L. S., Cheng, L. F., Salaneck, W. R., Santos, D. A. D., Brédas, J. L.; Interfacial chemistry of Alq3 and LiF with reactive metals J. Appl. Phys. 89, 2756 (2001).
Gould, I. R., Shukla, D., Giesen, D., Farid, S.; Energetics of Electron-Transfer Reactions of Photoinitiated Polymerization: Dye-Sensitized Fragmentation of N-Alkoxypyridinium Salts Helvetica Chimica Acta 84, 2796 (2001).
Le, Q. T., Yan, L., Gao, Y., Mason, M. G., Giesen, D. J., Tang, C. W.; Photoemission Study of Aluminum/tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) Aluminum and Aluminum/LiF/tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) Aluminum Interfaces J. Appl. Phys. 87, 375 (2000).
Chambers, C. C., Giesen, D. J., Hawkins, G. D., Vaes, W. H., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; Modeling the Effect of Solvation on Structure, Reactivity, and Partitioning of Organic Solutes: Utility in Drug Design in Rational Drug Design (eds. Truhlar, D. G., Howe, W. J., Hopfinger, A. J., Blaney, J. M. & Dammkoehler, R. A.) 51 Springer, New York, (1999).
Hawkins, G. D., Li, J., Zhu, T., Chambers, C. C., Giesen, D. J., Liotard, D. A., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; New Tools for Rational Drug Design in Rational Drug Design (eds. Parrill, A. L. & Reddy, M. R.) 120 American Chemical Society, Washington DC, ACS Symposium Series, Volume 719 (1999).
Hawkins, G. D., Zhu, T., Li, J., Chambers, C. C., Giesen, D. J., Liotard, D. A., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; Universal Solvation Models in Combined Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical Methods (eds. Gao, J. & Thompson, M. A.) Amercian Chemical Society, Washington DC, (1998).
Chambers, C. C., Archibong, E. F., Jabalameli, A., Sullivan, R. H., Giesen, D. J., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; Quantum Mechanical and 13C Dynamic NMR Study of 1,3-Dimethylurea Conformational Isomerizations J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 425, 61 (1998).
Giesen, D. J., Chambers, C. C., Hawkins, G. D., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; in Modeling Free Energies of Solvation and Transfer in Computational Thermochemistry: Prediction and Estimation of Molecular Thermodynamics (eds. Irikura, K. & Frurip, D. J.) American Chemical Society, Washington DC, ACS Symposium Series, Volume 677 (1998).
Giesen, D. J., Chambers, C. C., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; What Controls Partitioning of the Nucleic Acid Bases Between Chloroform and Water? J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 5084 (1997).
Giesen, D. J., Chambers, C. C., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; Solvation Model for Chloroform Based on Class IV Atomic Charges J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 2061 (1997).
Giesen, D. J., Hawkins, G. D., Liotard, D. A., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; A Universal Model or the Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Free Energies of Solvation in Non-Aqueous Solvents Theor. Chem. Acc. 98, 85 (1997).
Giesen, D. J., Gu, M. Z., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; A Universal Organic Solvation Model J. Org. Chem. 61, 8720 (1996).
Easton, R. E., Giesen, D. J., Welch, A., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; The MIDI! Basis Set for Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Molecular Geometries and Partial Charges Theo. Chim. Acta. 93, 281 (1996).
Cramer, C. J., Dulles, F. J., Giesen, D. J., Almlöf, J.; Density Functional Theory: Excited States and Spin Annihilation Chem. Phys. Lett. 245, 165 (1995).
Giesen, D. J., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; A Semiempirical Quantum Mechanical Solvation Model for Solvation Free Energies in All Alkane Solvents J. Phys. Chem. 99, 7137 (1995).
Giesen, D. J., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; A General Semiempirical Quantum Mechanical Solvation Model for Nonpolar Solvation Free Energies. n-Hexadecane J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 117, 1057 (1995).
Storer, J. W., Giesen, D. J., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; Class IV Charge Models: A New Semiempirical Approach in Quantum Chemistry J. Comput.-Aid. Mol. Des. 9, 87 (1995).
Storer, J. W., Giesen, D. J., Hawkins, G. D., Lynch, G. C., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G., Liotard, D. A.; Solvation Modeling in Aqueous and Nonaqueous Solvents: New Techniques and a Re-examination of the Claisen Rearrangement in Structure and Reactivity in Aqueous Solution (eds. Cramer, C. J. & Truhlar, D. G.) 24 American Chemical Society, Washington DC, ACS Symposium Series, Volume 568 (1994).
Giesen, D. J., Cramer, C. J., Truhlar, D. G.; Entropic Contributions to Free Energies of Solvation J. Phys. Chem. 98, 4141 (1994).
Granted US Patents
7,462,405 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
7,419,728 Light-emitting device containing bis-phosphineoxide compound: Eastman Kodak Company
7,147,937 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
7,118,812 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
7,101,631 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
7,090,930 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
7,083,865 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
7,052,785 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
7,049,012 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
Patents Pending
20050095453 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
20050095452 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
20050095451 Organic element for electroluminescent devices: Eastman Kodak Company
"Research in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes" University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire; Eau Claire, WI, January 2009
"Computational Chemistry for Organic Electronics" 2 class guest lecture for graduate level Organic Electronics class, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 2008 and March 2009
"Using Computational Chemistry to Delve the Wealth of Information in Experimental Spectra" Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, October 2006
"Using Computational Chemistry to Delve the Wealth of Information in Experimental Spectra" University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, February 2006
"Structure Elucidation Through Experimental and Computational Spectroscopic Studies" Physical Organic Gordon Research Conference, Plymouth, NH, June 2005
"MIDI!-The Little Basis Set That Can" Computational Chemical Dynamics Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, October 2004
"The Role of Molecular Modeling in NMR-Assisted Crystallography" American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2004
"Industrial Computational Chemistry" University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire; March 2002