You've reached the home page Samuel Lipoff, a PhD student in Chemistry at MIT. I was an undergraduate at Harvard University where I concentrated in Chemical Physics and History of Science, and an MPhil student in History and Philosophy of Science at Trinity College Cambridge. If you want to know more, you can view my CV as a PDF file or as an HTML file.

I'm currently a PhD student in physical chemistry in the Field Group studying chemical physics of small molecules. I'm also particularly interested in chemical physics of ultra-cold molecules and hope to be collaborating with the Doyle and Herschbach groups at Harvard experiments with ultra-cold molecules. I've been a teaching fellow at MIT for advanced undergraduate physical chemistry couses, and a non-resident tutor at Cabot House at Harvard University.

After graduating from Harvard, I received a Herchel Smith Scholarship and a Fulbright Scholarship, and spent one year as an M.Phil student in History and Philosophy of Science at Trinity College in Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. I've been working at the Needham Research Institute on the history of Chinese Science, also have been doing some work on the history of the electron and the Avogadro Constant at the Cavendish Laboratory.

Previously, I've been a research associate in the Zhuang Group in the Harvard University departments of Chemistry and Physics, and continue to do some work with the Goldberg/Ünlü group in the Boston University departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. I've been working on a few other research projects as well, including one with Daniel Yamins (Applied Math) and Professor Hau (Physics), and writing some programs for data analysis with A. Goel (Physics) and Professor Herschbach (Chemistry). I've also been a research assistant with Professor Peter Galison in the Department of History of Science at Harvard.

I'm the Publisher, and editor emeritus, of the Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Harvard's only undergraduate publication focusing on the Asia/Pacific region. And was the the Director of Academic Programs for HPAIR, the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, a student organization that organizes a conference in Asia each summer, as well as host of academic events related to Asia on the Harvard campus. And for a year and a half was the director of the student advisory service for the Chinese Student's Association helping freshman to learn their way around Harvard, and producing a guide for future students.

In the fall of 2002 and 2003 I was one of the teaching fellows for Chemistry 15 an innovative course on inorganic chemistry being taught for the first time in 2002. I've been also been writing a handbook for chemistry concentrators at Harvard, and was once co-president of the undergraduate chemistry club.

I've always loved technology—you can see my first encounter with a laser at age two and-a-half, and my first encounter with a fax machine at the tender age of a single year. If you'd like you can take a look at some other (more recent) pictures of me. I still like technology very much, which is one of many reasons why I've served on the FAS Standing Committee on the Library, where I've been advocating for changes to Harvard's wonderful library system to make it even better.

I graduated from Boston University Academy in May 2000.  This innovative high school is located on the Boston University campus and is well-integrated with Boston Univeristy.  As a student there I had the opportunity to take fourteen courses at Boston University, worked at the Boston University Center for Photonics Research, and had a great time doing it!

I'm a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, an active radio amateur and member of the Newton Radio Response Team (NRRT), and was elected to the first Newton Mayor's Committee on Youth Leadership.

I have a number of interests—from research interests to recreational interests—that are reflected in the rest of this website.  Enjoy!