• Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University, Physical Chemistry
• M.S., 1986, Cornell University, Physical Chemistry
• B.S., 1983, West Virginia Wesleyan College
• Postdoctoral Research:
  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 1991-1994, UC Berkeley
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow, 1994-1997, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Employment:
  • Technical Staff Member, 1997-present, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
    Currently team leader of Biomolecular Materials, Spectroscopy and Imaging Team, Materials Physics and Applications Division and co-leader for Soft and Biological Nanomaterials Scientific thrust area in Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies.

Research Interests:

• Applications of spectroscopic techniques to the study of electron and energy transfer processes in biology, chemistry and nanoscale materials science;
• Theory of electron and energy transfer; Experimental and theoretical development of time-resolved and nonlinear spectroscopies, optical imaging methods, surface-specific spectroscopies, and Raman spectroscopies;
• Development and applications of thin-film nanostructured self-assembled materials and biomimetic membrane architectures;
• Biosensor technology; Spectroscopic studies of protein structure and dynamics.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. A.P. Shreve, E.H. Haroz, S.M. Bachilo, R.B. Weisman, S. Tretiak, S. Kilina, S.K. Doorn, "Determination of exciton-phonon coupling elements in single-walled carbon nanotubes by Raman overtone analysis," Phys. Rev. Lett. (2007) in press.
2. R.C. Rocha and A.P. Shreve, "Characterization of infrared vibrational activity in specific totally symmetric bridging modes of localized-to-delocalized mixed-valence systems," Chem. Phys. 326 (2006) 24-32.
3. R.C. Rocha, M.G. Brown, C.H. Londergan, C.P. Kubiak, and A.P. Shreve, "Intervalence resonant Raman spectroscopy of strongly coupled mixed-valence cluster dimers of ruthenium," J. Phys. Chem. A 109 (2005) 9006-9012.
4. A.M. Dattelbaum, M.L. Amweg, J.D. Ruiz, L.E. Ecke, A.P. Shreve, and A.N. Parikh, "Surfactant removal and silica condensation during the photochemical calcination of thin-film silica mesophases," J. Phys. Chem. B 109 (2005) 14551-14556.
5. M.C. Howland, A.R.S. Butti, S.S. Dixit, A.M. Dattelbaum, A.P. Shreve, A.N. Parikh, "Phospholipid morphologies on photochemically patterned silane monolayers," J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 127 (2005) 6752-6765.
6. R.J. Magyar, S. Tretiak, Y. Gao, H.-L. Wang and A.P. Shreve, "A joint theoretical and experimental study of polyphenylene-acetylene molecular wires," Chem. Phys. Lett. 401 (2005) 149-156.
7. W.E. Buschmann, S.D. McGrane and A.P. Shreve, "Chemical tuning of nonlinearity leading to intrinsically localized modes in halide-bridged mixed-valence platinum materials," J. Phys. Chem. A 107 (2003) 8198-8207.