Member of the RSC
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2006-2007 University of Cambridge
2007-2009 University of California, Santa Barbara
2009-2012 Dalton Research Fellow, Cumbria and Manchester
2012-2017 Lecturer, University of Manchester
2017- Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Mike Reid (2009-2013)
Dr Rhiannon Monckton (2010-2014)
Dr Chloe Holroyd (2012-2016)
Mr Urslaan Chohan (2013-2017)
Mrs Saada Abujarada (2014- )
Ms Huda AlSalem (2014- )
Mr Jamie Southworth (2015- )
Mr Darryl Messer (2016- )
External PhD examiner
Physical Chemistry, Materials Science, graphene, laser spectroscopy, surface science, laser desorption, ion imaging, sum-frequency generation, MD/DFT
Martin McCoustra, Heriot-Watt University
Simon Pimblott, Univ of Manchester
Greg Kimmel and Nick Petrik, PNNL
Heike Arnolds, Liverpool
Gil Nathanson, Madison-Wisconsin
Igor Larrossa, Univ of Manchester
UK. Youhan, SPK. Koehler (2021). Energetics of hydrogen adsorption and diffusion for the main surface planes and all magnetic structures of γ-iron using density functional theory. RSC Advances. 11(46), pp.28892-28897.
T. Greenwood, SPK. Koehler (2021). Nitric Oxide Scattering off Graphene Using Surface-Velocity Map Imaging. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(32), pp.17853-17860.
HS. AlSalem, ST. Al-Goul, A. Garcia-Miranda Ferrari, DAC. Brownson, L. Velarde, et al. SPK. Koehler. (2020). Imaging the reactivity and width of graphene's boundary region. Chemical Communications. 56(67), pp.9612-9615.
HS. AlSalem, C. Holroyd, M. Danial Iswan, AB. Horn, MA. Denecke, et al. SPK. Koehler. (2018). Characterisation, coverage, and orientation of functionalised graphene using sum-frequency generation spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(13), pp.8962-8967.
S. Abujarada, C. Flathmann, SPK. Koehler (2017). Translational and Rotational Energy Distributions of NO Photodesorbed from Au(100). Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(36), pp.19922-19929.
UK. Chohan, SPK. Koehler, E. Jimenez-Melero (2017). Incipient FeO(1 1 1) monolayer formation during O-adsorption on Fe(1 1 0) surface. Computational Materials Science. 134, pp.109-115.
C. Holroyd, AB. Horn, C. Casiraghi, SPK. Koehler (2017). Vibrational fingerprints of residual polymer on transferred CVD-graphene. Carbon. 117, pp.473-475.
KAK. Gadallah, D. Marchione, SPK. Koehler, MRS. McCoustra (2017). Molecular hydrogen production from amorphous solid water during low energy electron irradiation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(4), pp.3349-3357.
E-H. Patel, MA. Williams, SPK. Koehler (2017). Kinetic Energy and Angular Distributions of He and Ar Atoms Evaporating from Liquid Dodecane. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(1), pp.233-239.
S. Son, C. Holroyd, J. Clough, A. Horn, SPK. Koehler, et al. C. Casiraghi. (2016). Substrate dependence of graphene reactivity towards hydrogenation. Applied Physics Letters. 109(24),
S. Abujarada, H. AlSalem, UK. Chohan, GL. Draper, SPK. Koehler (2016). Photodesorption of NO from Au(100) using 3D surface-velocity map imaging. Journal of Chemical Physics. 145(18),
UK. Chohan, E. Jimenez-Melero, SPK. Koehler (2016). Surface atomic relaxation and magnetism on hydrogen-adsorbed Fe(110) surfaces from first principles. Applied Surface Science. 387, pp.385-392.
MA. Williams, SPK. Koehler (2015). MD simulations of He evaporating from dodecane. Chemical Physics Letters. 629, pp.53-57.
NG. Petrik, RJ. Monckton, SPK. Koehler, GA. Kimmel (2014). Distance-Dependent Radiation Chemistry: Oxidation versus Hydrogenation of CO in Electron-Irradiated H2O/CO/H2O Ices. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118(47), pp.27483-27492.
NG. Petrik, RJ. Monckton, SPK. Koehler, GA. Kimmel (2014). Electron-stimulated reactions in layered CO/H2O films: hydrogen atom diffusion and the sequential hydrogenation of CO to methanol. J Chem Phys. 140(20),
M. Reid, V. Green, SPK. Koehler (2014). Near-threshold photodissociation dynamics of CHCl3. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 16(13), pp.6068-6074.
M. Reid, SPK. Koehler (2013). Validation of velocity map imaging conditions over larger areas. Rev Sci Instrum. 84(4),
Y. Ji, SPK. Koehler, DJ. Auerbach, AM. Wodtke (2010). Surface three-dimensional velocity map imaging: A new technique for the study of photodesorption dynamics. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films. 28(4), pp.807-813.
SPK. Koehler, Y. Ji, DJ. Auerbach, AM. Wodtke (2009). Three-dimensional velocity map imaging of KBr surface photochemistry. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 11(35), pp.7540-7544.
SPK. Köhler, SK. Reed, RE. Westacott, KG. McKendrick (2006). Molecular dynamics study to identify the reactive sites of a liquid squalane surface. J Phys Chem B. 110(24), pp.11717-11724.
D. Carty, A. Goddard, SPK. Köhler, IR. Sims, IWM. Smith (2006). Kinetics of the radical-radical reaction, O(3P(J)) + OH(X2Pi omega) --> O2 + H, at temperatures down to 39 K. J Phys Chem A. 110(9), pp.3101-3109.
SPK. Köhler, M. Allan, ML. Costen, KG. McKendrick (2006). Direct gas-liquid interfacial dynamics: the reaction between O(3P) and a liquid hydrocarbon. J Phys Chem B. 110(6), pp.2771-2776.
SPK. Köhler, M. Allan, H. Kelso, DA. Henderson, KG. McKendrick (2005). The effects of surface temperature on the gas-liquid interfacial reaction dynamics of O(3P)+squalane. J Chem Phys. 122(2),
T. Spangenberg, S. Köhler, B. Hansmann, U. Wachsmuth, B. Abel, et al. MA. Smith. (2004). Low-Temperature Reactions of OH Radicals with Propene and Isoprene in Pulsed Laval Nozzle Expansions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 108(37), pp.7527-7534.
H. Kelso, SPK. Köhler, DA. Henderson, KG. McKendrick (2003). Dynamics of the gas–liquid interfacial reaction of O(3P) atoms with hydrocarbons. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 119(19), pp.9985-9988.
D. Messer, L. Jones, R. Orr, S. Koehler, S. Pimblott (2018). Radiolytic recombination of H2, O2 and N2 over PuO2 and ceramic oxide surrogates. In: Plutonium Futures - The Science 2018. pp.73-75.
XXVIII Annual Northern Universities Meeting of Chemical Physics, sponsored by the RSC and IOP, in July 2018 at MMU
Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dalton Fellowship
ACS Petroleum Fund
at the Photon Science Instutute, Manchester
Member of the RSC
Fellow of the HEA