Research Collaborators

Doctoral Dissertations

Directed at the University of Florida

  • Michael J. Redmon, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1973, “Dynamics of Alkali Atom- Halogen Atom Collisions”
  • John C. Bellum, Ph.D., Physics, 1976, “Electronic and Dynamic Aspects of Diatomic Systems”
  • Zeki C. Kuruoglu, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1978, “Three-Body Theory and Computational Aspects of Collisions between Atoms and Diatomic Molecules”
  • Lyntis H. Beard, Jr., Ph.D., Chemistry, 1979, “Energy Transfer and Dissociation in Hyperthermal Atom-Diatom Collisions”
  • Larry R. Relyea, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1980, “Theory of Ionizing Atomic Collisions at Thermal Energy”
  • Eduardo F. Vilallonga, Ph.D., Physics, 1981, “Energy Transfer in Molecular Collisions”
  • John A. Olson, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1982, “Dynamics of Diabatic Atom- Diatom Reactions at Low Energies”
  • Cliff D. Stodden, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1987, “Photodissociation of Polyatomic Molecules; State-to-State Cross Sections from the Selfconsistent Eikonal Method”
  • Zaida Parra-Gonzalez, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1988, “Scattering of Atoms by Solid Surfaces and by Adsorbates”
  • Deepak Srivastava, Ph.D. Physics, 1988, “Photoexcitation of Polyatomic Systems
  • Joel M. Cohen, M.Sc., Chemistry, 1988, “Computational Studies of Molecular Collisions”
  • Joel M. Cohen, Ph.D. , Chemistry, 1990, “Computational Aspects of Electronically Diabatic Molecular Collisions”
  • Feng, Ph.D. , Physics, 1991, “A Time-Dependent Molecular Orbital Approach to Ion- Solid Surface Collisions”
  • Keith Runge, Ph.D. Physics, 1993, “Time-Dependent Many-Electron Theory of Atomic Interactions”
  • Dario Beksic, Ph.D., Physics, 1994, “Electronically Diabatic Photodesorption of Molecules Adsorbed on Metal Surfaces”
  • Robert Asher, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1995, (D. A. M. and P. Brucat co-chairs), “Experimental and Theoretical Investigation and Characterization of Small Molecular Ions”.
  • Herbert daCosta, Ph. D., Chemistry, 1998, “Time-Dependence of Light Emission and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Slow Atom-Atom Collisions”.
  • Zhigang Yi, Ph. D., Physics, 1998, “Computational Aspects of the Quantum Molecular Dynamics of Adsorbates”
  • Andres Reyes, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2003, “Density Matrix Theory and Computational Aspects of Atomic Collisions Including Spin-Orbit Coupling”
  • Alberto Santana, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2003, “Photoinduced Quantum Dynamics of Adsorbates at Surfaces”
  • Brian Thorndyke, Ph. D., Physics, 2004, “Quantum Dynamics of Finite Atomic and Molecular Systems Through Density Matrix Methods”
  • Alexander Pacheco, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2006, “First Principles Dynamics of Transient Light Absorption and Emission of Alkali Atoms Interacting with Rare Gas Atoms”
  • Andrew S. Leathers, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2009, Dissipative Quantum Molecular Dynamics in Gases and Condensed Media: A Density Matrix Treatment
  • Robert H. Hembree II, Ph. D. Physics, 2014, Photoconductivity at Nanostructured Semiconductor Surfaces: A Density Matrix Approach

Postdoctoral Research Associates to 2019

  • Dr. Paul Mc Guire
  • Dr. Jian-Min Yuan
  • Dr. P. K. Swaminathan
  • Dr. S. Danko Bosanac
  • Dr. Bela Gazdy
  • Dr. Jose Recamier
  • Dr. Keith Runge
  • Dr. Akbar Salam
  • Dr. Alexander Pacheco
  • Lic. Jose Luis Vega
  • Dr. Dmitri Kilin
  • Dr. Andrew Leathers
  • Dr. Tijo Vazhappilly

David Micha’s Research Group (1996 -2019)

  • Dr. Tijo Vazhappilly, postdoctoral research associate
  • Robert Hembree, graduate research student, PhD graduate
  • Harvy Freitag, undergraduate research student, graduate
  • Nicolas Vinson, undergraduate research student, graduate
  • Michael Mavros, undergraduate research student, graduate
  • Ramon Pulido, undergraduate research student, graduate
  • David Stewart, undergraduate research student, graduate
  • Dr. Keith Runge, graduate research student, PhD graduate; senior research associate, departed
  • Dr. Akbar Salam, postdoctoral research associate, departed
  • Dr. Jose Luis Vega, research associate, departed
  • Dr. Herbert DaCosta, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate
  • Dr. Andrew S. Leathers, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate
  • Dr. Alexander Pacheco, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate
  • Dr. Andres Reyes, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate
  • Dr. Alberto Santana, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate
  • Dr. Brian Thorndyke, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate
  • Dr. Zhigang Yi, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate
  • Dr. Karl Zachary, graduate research co-assistant, PhD graduate
  • James Sund, undergraduate research assistant , graduate, departed
  • Sebastien Villaume, REU undergraduate research assistant, graduate, departed
  • Nicolas Finck, REU undergraduate research assistant, graduate, departed
  • Shannon Wallace, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed
  • Atchar Sudhyadhom, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed
  • Jessica Ramirez, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed
  • Dr. Andrew Leathers, Postdoctoral research associate, departed
  • Chris Obara, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed
  • David Arlund, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed
  • Travis LaJoie, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed
  • John Boulos, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed
  • Rishi Rao, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed

Other Collaborators (1996 – 2021)

  • Dr. Robert Asher (Argonne Nat. Laboratory)
  • Dr. Dario Beksic (Univ. Autonoma, Barcelona, Spain)
  • Prof. Irene Burghardt (Univ. of Frankfurt, Germany)
  • Prof. Philip Brucat (Chemistry, Univ. of Florida)
  • Prof. Gerardo Delgado Barrio (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • Dr. Maria Pilar deLara-Castells (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • Prof. Celso P. DeMelo (Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
  • Prof. Geerd Diercksen (MPI fuer Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
  • Prof. F. Marcelo Fernandez (Univ. Nac. de La Plata, Argentina)
  • Prof. Helena Hagelin-Weaver (Univ. of Florida, Chemical Engineering)
  • Prof. Keith H. Hugues, (School of Chemistry, Bangor University, UK)
  • Prof. Dmitri Kilin (North Dakota State Univ.)
  • Prof. Y-H. Kim (Inha Univ., Inchon, Korea)
  • Prof. Bernard Kirtman (Univ. of California, Sta. Barbara)
  • Prof. Zeki Kuruoglu (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
  • Prof. Salvador Miret-Artes (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • Prof. Susan Sinnott (Materials Sciences, Univ. of Florida)
  • Prof. Clifford Stodden (St Petersburg College, Florida)
  • Prof. Peter Toennies (MPI fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen, Germany)
  • Dr. Tijo J. Vazhappilly (Bhabha Research center, Mumbai, India)
  • Lic. Jose Luis Vega (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)