Claire Vallance

Claire Vallance is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Department of Chemistry. Her research focuses on chemical reaction dynamics, the development of spectroscopic and spectrometric methods, and their applications in medicine. Her work includes studies of photoinduced and electron-induced chemical reactions, ultrafast detectors for time-of-flight imaging, and spectroscopic measurements in clinical settings. She is also involved in the development of optical microcavities for chemical sensing and has co-founded the spin-out company Mode Labs. Vallance is a Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Hertford College and has authored several textbooks and edited publications in her field.

Claire Vallance is a researcher at the University of Oxford with a focus on advanced spectroscopic techniques and molecular dynamics. Her work explores cavity-enhanced spectroscopy, cavity ringdown spectroscopy, and innovations in sensing technologies. Vallance's research also includes molecular reaction dynamics, particularly insertion and abstraction pathways in chemical reactions. She has contributed to the development of pixel-imaging mass spectrometry (PImMS) and its application in Coulomb-explosion imaging. Her studies involve electron impact ionization cross-sections for various organic compounds and the analysis of photodissociation dynamics. Vallance's research bridges experimental and theoretical approaches to understand molecular behavior under extreme conditions.