Staff profile

• 2023 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Durham University
• 2020 Ramsay Memorial Fellow, Durham University
• 2016 Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego
• 2015 DPhil, University of Oxford
• 2011 MChem, University of Oxford

• Dissociation dynamics of complex ions
• Novel translational spectroscopy

Journal Article

• Clarke, C. J., Gibbard, J. A., Brittain, W. D. G., & Brittain, J. R. R. (2024). Predicting the increase in electron affinity of phenoxy upon fluorination. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 277, Article 110306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2024.110306
• Gibbard, J. A., Kellow, C. S., & Verlet, J. R. R. (2024). Photoelectron spectroscopy of the deprotonated tryptophan anion: the contribution of deprotomers to its photodetachment channels. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 26(15), 12053-12059. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cp00309h
• Gibbard, J. A., Reppel, J., & Verlet, J. R. R. (2023). Photodissociation of permanganate (MnO 4 − ) produces the manganese dioxide anion (MnO 2 − ) in an excited triplet state. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(48), 32939-32947. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cp04576e
• Gibbard, J. A., Reppel, J., & Verlet, J. R. R. (2023). Note: Photoelectron imaging of MnO3- to probe its nuclear and electronic structure. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 159(14), Article 146101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0171346
• Gibbard, J., & Verlet, J. (2023). Unraveling the decarboxylation dynamics of the fluorescein dianion with fragment action spectroscopy. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(15), Article 154306. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0144851
• Clarke, C. J., Gibbard, J. A., Hutton, L., Verlet, J. R., & Curchod, B. F. (2022). Photochemistry of the pyruvate anion produces CO2, CO, CH3–, CH3, and a low energy electron. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 937. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28582-4
• Gibbard, J. A., & Verlet, J. R. (2022). Photoelectron Imaging Study of the Diplatinum Iodide Dianions [Pt2I6]2– and [Pt2I8]2–. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126(22), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c02008
• Gibbard, J. A., & Verlet, J. R. (2022). Photoelectron imaging of PtI2− and its PtI− photodissociation product. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 156(13), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085610
• Gibbard, J. A., & Verlet, J. R. (2022). Kasha’s Rule and Koopmans’ Correlations for Electron Tunnelling through Repulsive Coulomb Barriers in a Polyanion. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 13(33), 7797-7801. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02145
• Bull, J. N., Anstöter, C. S., Stockett, M. H., Clarke, C. J., Gibbard, J. A., Bieske, E. J., & Verlet, J. R. (2021). Nonadiabatic Dynamics between Valence, Nonvalence, and Continuum Electronic States in a Heteropolycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(49), 11811-11816. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03532
• Gibbard, J., Castracane, E., Krylov, A., & Continetti, R. (2021). Photoelectron photofragment coincidence spectroscopy of aromatic carboxylates: benzoate and p-coumarate. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23(34), https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp02972j
• Gibbard, J. A., Clarke, C. J., & Verlet, J. R. (2021). Photoelectron spectroscopy of the protoporphyrin IX dianion. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23(34), https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp03075b
• Gibbard, J., & Continetti, R. (2021). Photoelectron photofragment coincidence spectroscopy of carboxylates. RSC Advances, 11(54), https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ra06340e
• Gibbard, J., Castracane, E., Shin, A., & Continetti, R. (2020). Dissociative photodetachment dynamics of the oxalate monoanion. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22(3), https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cp05338g
• Gibbard, J., Castracane, E., & Continetti, R. (2020). Photoelectron–photofragment coincidence spectroscopy of the mixed trihalides. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(5), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0014253
• Gibbard, J., & Continetti, R. (2019). Photoelectron-photofragment coincidence studies of I3− using an electrospray ionization source and a linear accelerator. Faraday Discussions, 217, https://doi.org/10.1039/c8fd00216a
• Gibbard, J., & Continetti, R. (2019). Photoelectron-photofragment coincidence spectroscopy of the dissociative photodetachment of I2- at 258 and 266 nm. Molecular Physics, 117(21), https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2019.1626507
• Gibbard, J., Shin, A., Castracane, E., & Continetti, R. (2018). A high beam energy photoelectron-photofragment coincidence spectrometer for complex anions. Review of Scientific Instruments, 89(12), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5074112
• Gibbard, J., & Softley, T. (2016). Handshake electron transfer from hydrogen Rydberg atoms incident at a series of metallic thin films. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 144(23), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953554
• Gibbard, J., & Softley, T. (2016). Resonant charge transfer of hydrogen Rydberg atoms incident at a metallic sphere. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 49(11), https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/49/11/114004
• Gibbard, J., Dethlefsen, M., Kohlhoff, M., Rennick, C., So, E., Ford, M., & Softley, T. (2015). Resonant Charge Transfer of Hydrogen Rydberg Atoms Incident on a Cu(100) Projected Band-Gap Surface. Physical Review Letters, 115(9), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.115.093201
• So, E., Gibbard, J., & Softley, T. (2015). Ionization of Rydberg H atoms at band-gap metal surfaces via surface and image states. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 48(17), https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/48/17/175205