Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Associate Professor, Chemistry, UMN, 2006-present
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UMN, 2000-2006

Selected Publications

N. P. Well, B. W. Boudouris, M. A. Hillmyer, and D. A. Blank, "Intramolecular Exciton Relaxation and Migration Dynamics in Poly(3-Hexylthiophene)", J. Phys. Chem. B, Accepted (2007)

S. J. Schmidtke, D. F. Underwood, and D. A. Blank, "Following the Solvent Directly as it Controls Ultrafast Excited State Proton Transfer", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 8620-8621 (2004)

D. F. Underwood and D. A. Blank, "Measuring the Change in the Intermolecular Raman Spectrum During Dipolar Solvation", J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 3295-3306 (2005)

S. J. Schmidtke, D. F. Underwood, and D. A. Blank, "Probing Excited State Dynamics and Intramolecular Proton Transfer in 1-acylaminoanthraquinones via the Intermolecular Solvent Response", J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 7033-7045 (2005)

D. F. Underwood and D. A. Blank, "Direct Probing of the Local solvent Response During Intermolecular Electron Transfer", In Ultrafast Phenomena XV, Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 14, (2007). A. T. Healy, D. F. Underwood, S. Lipsky, and D. A. Blank, "Three-photon Near Threshold Photoionization Dynamics of Isooctane", J. Chem. Phys., 123, 051105 (2005)

S. J. Schmidtke, L. A. MacManu-Spencer, J. J. Klappa, T. A Mobley, K. McNeill, and D. A. Blank, "2-(2'-pyridyl)pyrroles: Part I. Structure and Energetics of Pyridylpryrroles, Their Dimers, Complexes and Excited States", Phys. Chem. Chem Phys., 6, 3938-3947 (2004)

L. A. MacManu-Spencer, S. J. Schmidtke, D. A. Blank, and K. McNeill, "2-(2'-pyridyl)pyrroles: Part II. Spectroscopic Investigations of Pyridylpyrrole Alcohol complexes", Phys. Chem. Chem Phys., 6, 3948-3957 (2004)

D. F. Underwood and D. A. Blank , "Ultrafast Solvation Dynamics: A View From the Solvent's Perspective Using a Novel Resonant-Pump Non-Resonant Probe Technique", J. Phys. Chem. A, 107, 956-961 (2004)

A. Rundquist, J. Broman, D. Underwood, and D. Blank, "Polarization-Dependent Detection of Impulsive Stimulated Raman Scattering in Alpha-Quartz", J. Mod. Opt., 52, 2501-2510 (2005).