Dr. Mark T. Spitler
Dr. Spitler joined the Chemistry Department at UNC as a Visiting Scholar in 2019 after his retirement from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2018. There he had served as Program Manager for the Solar Photochemistry Program since 2007 where he had previously been detailed to this Program as a Senior Scientist from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He came to program management from two decades in corporate R&D entrepreneurial ventures in the Boston area. The bulk of this time was as a senior scientist and research group supervisor in the Polaroid Corporation where he worked on the manufacturing of amorphous silicon solar cells and on the research and development of novel imaging systems. He has held academic appointments at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston as well as at Mount Holyoke College. His doctoral work was completed under the supervision of Melvin Calvin at UC Berkeley with a post-doctoral appointment at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin with Heinz Gerischer.
Dr. Spitler has over fifty journal articles and patents. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a AAAS Fellow. His technical background includes photoelectrochemistry and semiconductor electrochemistry, spectral sensitization of solids, and sensors for detection of hazardous materials.
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1977
B.S., Stanford University, 1972
Contact:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Chemistry
2202M Murray Hall
Campus Box 3290,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290