David R. Crosley
Senior Staff Scientist
Molecular Physics Laboratory

David R. Crosley brings an impressive body of work and study to his post as Senior Staff Scientist in the Molecular Physics Laboratory. His areas of focus include laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy, collisional energy transfer, laser flame diagnostics, gas phase chemical kinetics, and atmospheric monitoring. Dr. Crosley's research assignments at SRI have included laser spectroscopy and diagnostics techniques for combustion, chemical kinetics, materials processing, and atmospheric monitoring.

In 1986, Dr. Crosley was honored with the SRI Team Building Award. Additionally, he was the first recipient of the Mimi Stearns Mentoring Award from SRI in 1994 and received the SRI Fellow Award in 1998.

Before joining SRI, Dr. Crosley was a postdoctoral research associate at Boulder's Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, and a project leader at the Aberdeen Ballistic Research Laboratory. He has also served as a visiting professor at universities in France and Germany.

Dr. Crosley is a member of the American Physical Society (Fellow), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow), the American Chemical Society, the Combustion Institute, the American Geophysical Union, the Optical Society of America, and the academic fraternities Phi Lambda Upsilon, Pi Mu Epsilon; and Sigma Xi. In addition to his authorship or coauthorship of more than 180 journal publications and 300 conference presentations, David has held editorial posts at Applied Optics and the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Dr. Crosley holds a B.S. in chemistry (1962) from Iowa State University; and an M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1966) in physical chemistry, both from Columbia University.

Contact Dr. Crosley at:
PHONE: (650) 859-2395
david.crosley@sri.com