Research interests in the Zwier Group include development and application of new laser-based methods for mapping out potential energy surfaces of flexible molecules with many conformational minima, single-conformation spectroscopy, hydrogen bonding and solvation effects, intramolecular H-atom tunneling, energy flow and isomerization rates in large molecules, electronic coupling and energy transfer in multichromophore molecules, and laboratory measurements of photochemical processes of importance in planetary atmospheres.

To these ends, we are currently engaged in spectroscopic research in three main areas;