Rate My Professor Claire Vallance

Her research encompasses chemical reaction dynamics, novel laser spectroscopy techniques for chemical sensing, and the application of mass spectrometry and spectroscopy in clinical medicine. Key areas include photoinduced and electron-induced reactions in the gas phase, ultrafast time-of-flight imaging using PImMS detectors—which she co-invented—and optical microcavities for remote environmental sensing. She co-founded Mode Labs, a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing this technology. Vallance has authored textbooks such as Astrochemistry: from the Big Bang to the Present Day (World Scientific Press, 2017), An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics (Morgan-Claypool Publishing, 2017), An Introduction to the Gas Phase (Morgan-Claypool Publishing, 2017), and Symmetry and Group Theory (ChemLibreTexts). She co-edited Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics (RSC Publishing, 2010). With over 160 peer-reviewed publications, notable contributions include 'Multi-mass velocity-map imaging of photoinduced and electron-induced chemistry' (Chemical Communications, 2019), 'Covariance-map imaging: a powerful tool for chemical dynamics studies' (Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021), and reviews on cavity ringdown spectroscopy and molecular alignment.