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(i) Professional Preparation
Ph.D. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 1980
B.A. in Chemistry, Macalester College, 1975
(ii) Appointments
1988–present Program Director for Materials Chemistry with the Ames Laboratory of the Department of Energy
1999–present Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
1983–present Assistant to Associate to Full Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University
1981–1983 Technical Staff Member, Applied Physics Division, Sandia National Laboratories
1981 Postdoctoral, Chemistry, University of Munich
1975–1976 Director of Materials Analysis Laboratory, Control Data Corporation
(iii) Selected publications most relevant to forensics
Cai, T., F. Shi, M. Gierer, A.I. Goldman, M.J. Kramer, C.J. Jenks, T.A. Lograsso, D.W. Delaney, P.A. Thiel, and M.A. Van Hove. "Structural aspects of the fivefold quasicrystalline Al-Cu-Fe surface from STM and dynamical LEED studies." Surface Science 295 (2001): 19–34.
Fournée, V., P.J. Pinhero, J.W. Anderegg, T.A. Lograsso, A.R. Ross, P.C. Canfield, I.R. Fisher, and P.A. Thiel. "Electronic Structure of Quasicrystalline and Related Crystalline Surfaces: Effects of Surface Preparation and Bulk Structure." Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter Mater. Phys. 62 (2000): 14049–14060.
Pai, W.W., J.F. Wendelken, C.R. Stoldt, P.A. Thiel, J.W. Evans, and D.-J. Liu. "Evolution of two-dimensional wormlike nanoclusters on metal surfaces." Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001): 3088–3091.
Stoldt, C.R., A.M. Cadilhe, C.J. Jenks, J.-M. Wen, J.W. Evans, and P.A. Thiel. "Evolution of far-from-equilibrium nanostructures formed by cluster-step and cluster-cluster coalescence in metal films." Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 (1998): 2950–2953.
Stoldt, C.R., K.J. Caspersen, M.C. Bartelt, C.J. Jenks, J.W. Evans, and P.A. Thiel. "Using Temperature to Tune Film Roughness: Non-Intuitive Behavior in a Simple System." Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000): 800.
(iv) Synergistic activities
a. Directly in Forensics. Dr. Thiel has had one M.S. graduate placed as a forensic scientist at the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF).
b. Other. Major administrative experience as Chair of the Department of Chemistry, 1999–2002, and as Program Director for Materials Chemistry in the Ames Laboratory, 1988–present.