University of Texas
Greg Orman Sitz
February 22, 1959–

 

 

 

Greg Orman Sitz was born in Harrisburg(?), Pennsylvania to Gilbert Carl and Alice Voigt Sitz.

Greg attended Richardson High School in Dallas, Texas. He graduated in 1977 and was a National Merit Finalist. Greg was accepted to Rice University where during his junior and senior years he was a research assistant with P. R. Brooks investigating oriented molecular beams by time-of-flight techniques. He also interfaced experiments to laboratory microcomputers. He graduated cum laude in 1981 with a BA in chemistry. He earned a PhD in chemistry from Stanford University in 1987. His dissertation was entitled, "Rotationally inelastic scattering of N₂ from Ag (111) : populations and polarizations." His supervising professor was Richard N. Zare. Greg was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, Combustion Research Facility. There he worked with R. K, Farrow using high resolution coherent Raman spectroscopy to study collisional dynamics of small gas phase molecules. His interests included gas-surface interations using molecular beams and nonlinear laser spectroscopy. His early interest at UT was the question, What determines whether a molecule sticks to a surface or rebounds from it and the role vibrational excitations plays in the answer. In 1989 Greg was appointed Asssitant Professor of Physics at UT. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2002.

Greg married Debortah Lynn Fulton July 31, 1982 in North Palm Beach, Florida.

Among Greg's department service positions were Chair of Undergraduate Affairs and many department committees..

Greg's honors include: National Merit Scholar, 1977-81; Member, American Physical Society, American Chemical Society; Morton M. Traum Award, American Vacuum Society, 1986; President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award 1997-98; College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award in Physics 2010; member of The University of Texas at Austin, Academy of Distinguished Teachers (inducted in 2010), holder The William David Blunk Memorial Professorship, 2012-13, Elizabeth B. Gleeson Professorship in Physics.

Greg's list of publications is extensive and he directed many theses and dissertations.

Some of Greg's professional activities include:

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Greg Sitz Photo Album