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Research Collaborators<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Doctoral Dissertations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Directed at the University of Florida<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  • Michael J. Redmon, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1973, “Dynamics of Alkali Atom- Halogen Atom Collisions”<\/li>\n
  • John C. Bellum, Ph.D., Physics, 1976, “Electronic and Dynamic Aspects of Diatomic Systems”<\/li>\n
  • Zeki C. Kuruoglu, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1978, “Three-Body Theory and Computational Aspects of Collisions between Atoms and Diatomic Molecules”<\/li>\n
  • Lyntis H. Beard, Jr., Ph.D., Chemistry, 1979, “Energy Transfer and Dissociation in Hyperthermal Atom-Diatom Collisions”<\/li>\n
  • Larry R. Relyea, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1980, “Theory of Ionizing Atomic Collisions at Thermal Energy”<\/li>\n
  • Eduardo F. Vilallonga, Ph.D., Physics, 1981, “Energy Transfer in Molecular Collisions”<\/li>\n
  • John A. Olson, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1982, “Dynamics of Diabatic Atom- Diatom Reactions at Low Energies”<\/li>\n
  • Cliff D. Stodden, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1987, “Photodissociation of Polyatomic Molecules; State-to-State Cross Sections from the Selfconsistent Eikonal Method”<\/li>\n
  • Zaida Parra-Gonzalez, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1988, “Scattering of Atoms by Solid Surfaces and by Adsorbates”<\/li>\n
  • Deepak Srivastava, Ph.D. Physics, 1988, “Photoexcitation of Polyatomic Systems<\/li>\n
  • Joel M. Cohen, M.Sc., Chemistry, 1988, “Computational Studies of Molecular Collisions”<\/li>\n
  • Joel M. Cohen, Ph.D. , Chemistry, 1990, “Computational Aspects of Electronically Diabatic Molecular Collisions”<\/li>\n
  • Feng, Ph.D. , Physics, 1991, “A Time-Dependent Molecular Orbital Approach to Ion- Solid Surface Collisions”<\/li>\n
  • Keith Runge, Ph.D. Physics, 1993, “Time-Dependent Many-Electron Theory of Atomic Interactions”<\/li>\n
  • Dario Beksic, Ph.D., Physics, 1994, “Electronically Diabatic Photodesorption of Molecules Adsorbed on Metal Surfaces”<\/li>\n
  • Robert Asher, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1995, (D. A. M. and P. Brucat co-chairs), “Experimental and Theoretical Investigation and Characterization of Small Molecular Ions”.<\/li>\n
  • Herbert daCosta, Ph. D., Chemistry, 1998, “Time-Dependence of Light Emission and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Slow Atom-Atom Collisions”.<\/li>\n
  • Zhigang Yi, Ph. D., Physics, 1998, “Computational Aspects of the Quantum Molecular Dynamics of Adsorbates”<\/li>\n
  • Andres Reyes, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2003, “Density Matrix Theory and Computational Aspects of Atomic Collisions Including Spin-Orbit Coupling”<\/li>\n
  • Alberto Santana, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2003, “Photoinduced Quantum Dynamics of Adsorbates at Surfaces”<\/li>\n
  • Brian Thorndyke, Ph. D., Physics, 2004, “Quantum Dynamics of Finite Atomic and Molecular Systems Through Density Matrix Methods”<\/li>\n
  • Alexander Pacheco, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2006, “First Principles Dynamics of Transient Light Absorption and Emission of Alkali Atoms Interacting with Rare Gas Atoms”<\/li>\n
  • Andrew S. Leathers, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2009, Dissipative Quantum Molecular Dynamics in Gases and Condensed Media: A Density Matrix Treatment<\/li>\n
  • Robert H. Hembree II, Ph. D. Physics, 2014, Photoconductivity at Nanostructured Semiconductor Surfaces: A Density Matrix Approach<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Postdoctoral Research Associates to 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    • Dr. Paul Mc Guire<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Jian-Min Yuan<\/li>\n
    • Dr. P. K. Swaminathan<\/li>\n
    • Dr. S. Danko Bosanac<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Bela Gazdy<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Jose Recamier<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Keith Runge<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Akbar Salam<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Alexander Pacheco<\/li>\n
    • Lic. Jose Luis Vega<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Dmitri Kilin<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Andrew Leathers<\/li>\n
    • Dr. Tijo Vazhappilly<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      David Micha’s Research Group (1996 -2019)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
      • Dr. Tijo Vazhappilly, postdoctoral research associate<\/li>\n
      • Robert Hembree, graduate research student, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • Harvy Freitag, undergraduate research student, graduate<\/li>\n
      • Nicolas Vinson, undergraduate research student, graduate<\/li>\n
      • Michael Mavros, undergraduate research student, graduate<\/li>\n
      • Ramon Pulido, undergraduate research student, graduate<\/li>\n
      • David Stewart, undergraduate research student, graduate<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Keith Runge, graduate research student, PhD graduate; senior research associate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Akbar Salam, postdoctoral research associate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Jose Luis Vega, research associate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Herbert DaCosta, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Andrew S. Leathers, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Alexander Pacheco, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Andres Reyes, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Alberto Santana, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Brian Thorndyke, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Zhigang Yi, graduate research assistant, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Karl Zachary, graduate research co-assistant, PhD graduate<\/li>\n
      • James Sund, undergraduate research assistant , graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Sebastien Villaume, REU undergraduate research assistant, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Nicolas Finck, REU undergraduate research assistant, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Shannon Wallace, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Atchar Sudhyadhom, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Jessica Ramirez, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Dr. Andrew Leathers, Postdoctoral research associate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Chris Obara, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • David Arlund, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Travis LaJoie, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • John Boulos, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed<\/li>\n
      • Rishi Rao, undergraduate research student, graduate, departed<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Other Collaborators (1996 – 2021)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
        • Dr. Robert Asher (Argonne Nat. Laboratory)<\/li>\n
        • Dr. Dario Beksic (Univ. Autonoma, Barcelona, Spain)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Irene Burghardt (Univ. of Frankfurt, Germany)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Philip Brucat (Chemistry, Univ. of Florida)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Gerardo Delgado Barrio (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)<\/li>\n
        • Dr. Maria Pilar deLara-Castells (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Celso P. DeMelo (Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Geerd Diercksen (MPI fuer Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. F. Marcelo Fernandez (Univ. Nac. de La Plata, Argentina)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Helena Hagelin-Weaver (Univ. of Florida, Chemical Engineering)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Keith H. Hugues, (School of Chemistry, Bangor University, UK)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Dmitri Kilin (North Dakota State Univ.)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Y-H. Kim (Inha Univ., Inchon, Korea)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Bernard Kirtman (Univ. of California, Sta. Barbara)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Zeki Kuruoglu (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Salvador Miret-Artes (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Susan Sinnott (Materials Sciences, Univ. of Florida)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Clifford Stodden (St Petersburg College, Florida)<\/li>\n
        • Prof. Peter Toennies (MPI fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen, Germany)<\/li>\n
        • Dr. Tijo J. Vazhappilly (Bhabha Research center, Mumbai, India)<\/li>\n
        • Lic. Jose Luis Vega (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/285"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/Micha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}