{"id":535,"date":"2026-06-23T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/?p=535"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:30:18","slug":"bob-quandt","status":"publish","type":"facstaff","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/bob-quandt\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Quandt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was born and raised in Grand Forks North Dakota and earned my B.S. in chemistry from St. John&rsquo;s University in Collegeville. In 1996 I received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at North Dakota State University working under Dr. John Hershberger. After that I did about two and a half years of postdoctoral research with Dr. Richard Bersohn at Columbia University in the City of New York. Admittedly, moving from a state with about 600,000 people to an island with 3,000,000 was a bit of a culture shock but it was a very rewarding experience. In 1998 I took a position in the chemistry department at Illinois State University. After 18 years of mild winters in central Illinois it dawned on me that the one thing I really missed from my childhood was the -40 &deg;F temperatures. So when BSU had an opening for a Physical Chemist I applied and was fortunate enough to be hired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While my primary area of teaching is physical chemistry I have a taught courses in a wide range of sub disciplines, everything from general chemistry to atmospheric chemistry to graduate level kinetics and dynamics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At ISU my research involved studying the gas phase photochemistry of the reaction of ground state oxygen atoms with a series of alkynes using a new and novel technique known as Cavity RingDown Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (CRD). At BSU I plan to concentrate on the computational side of my research where I will use high level ab initio programs to elucidate reaction mechanisms that are key in the atmospheric chemistry of Earth as well as other planets in the solar system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the few minutes a week I am not in the classroom\/lab I can usually be found renovating my home, building computers and reading and\/or binge watching science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Work (Undergraduate Coauthors Underlined)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>D. Buettner, B.J. Dilday, J.M. Standard, R.W. Quandt &ldquo;The Reaction of O(<sup>3<\/sup>P) with Alkynes: A Dynamic and Computational Study&rdquo; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., <strong>2016<\/strong>, In preparation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>J. McDonald and R.W. Quandt, &ldquo;Ground State Surface Formation of Cl<sub>2<\/sub> in the Dissociation of CCl<sub>4<\/sub> and CHCl<sub>3<\/sub> and Comparisons with Br Species&rdquo;<em> Comput. Theor. Chem.<\/em> <strong>2014,<\/strong> 1037, 28-34.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Standard, <u>R.J. Steidl, M.C. Beecher<\/u>, R.W. Quandt, &ldquo;A Multireference Configuration Interaction Study of Bromocarbenes&rdquo; J. Phys. Chem. A, <strong>2011<\/strong>, <em>115<\/em> (7), 1243&ndash;1249.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>J. McDonald, <u>A.D. Buettner<\/u>, B. J. Petro, R.W. Quandt, &ldquo;Reactive formation of dicarbon from the reactions of electronically excited radicals, CH(A<sup>2<\/sup>D) and CCl(A<sup>2<\/sup>D)&rdquo; <em>Chem. Phys. Lett. <\/em><strong>2008<\/strong>, <em>464<\/em>, 26-30.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"bsu_hero":"","bsu_hero_on_children":false,"bsu_hero_height":"600","bsu_hero_video":"","bsu_hero_focal_point":"","bsu_hero_media":"","bsu_hero_display":"random","bsu_hero_slider_interval":5,"bsu_hide_from_navigation":false,"bsu_redirect_enabled":false,"bsu_redirect_url":"","bsu_redirect_target":false,"bsu_require_auth":false,"bsu_require_auth_usertypes":"","_bsu_seo_title":"","_bsu_seo_description":"","_bsu_robots_noindex":false,"_bsu_sitemap_priority":"","_bsu_og_title":"","_bsu_og_description":"","_bsu_og_use_hero":false,"_bsu_og_image":"","photo":800,"websites":"","facstaff-manual":0,"facstaff-created-by-cron":0,"facstaff-cron-created-on":"","facstaff-cron-unpublished-on":"","facstaff-pre":"","facstaff-fname":"Robert","facstaff-lname":"Quandt","facstaff-title":"Professor","facstaff-email":"bob.quandt@bemidjistate.edu","facstaff-phone":"2187552792","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-535","facstaff","type-facstaff","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/facstaff"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}