Biographical Sketch of David A. Micha

Born in Argentina. U.S. citizen since 1974.

Education

Research Associate, Quantum Chemistry Group, University of Uppsala, Sweden, November 1965-January 1966
Research Associate, Theoretical Chemistry Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 1966-July 1967
Assistant Research Physicist, Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences and Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego (La Jolla), August 1967-August 1969
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, September 1969-June 1974
Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, July 1974-present

Fellowship, Swedish International Development Agency, 1962-65
Member, Society of the Sigma Xi, 1966
Docent, University of Uppsala, 1968
Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1971-74
Visiting Lamberg Professor, University of Gothenburg, 1971
U.S. Senior Scientist Award, A. Von Humboldt Foundation, W. Germany, 1976, and 1996
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1976
J.I.L.A. Fellow, National Bureau of Standards, 1983
Sigma Xi Senior Faculty Research Award, University of Florida, 1985
Listed in Who-is-Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd and later editions (Marquis, 1993).
Listed in Who-is-Who in America, 49th and later editions (Marquis, 1995)

Principal Investigator, American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund, Grant, 1969-72
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant, 1971-2009
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1971-73; extended to 1973-75
NATO Research Collaboration Grant, 1976-82
Oak Ridge Participation Contract, 1977-86
National Resource for Computation in Chemistry, 1978-80
A. Von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award, 1976-77
Co-Principal Investigator, NASA, 1981-83
Co-Principal Investigator, Office of Naval Research Chemistry Division, 1993-2000

Energy and electron transfer, and light emission-absorption at solid surfaces
Energy transfer, electron transfer, light emission, and reactions in gas phase collisions
Molecular photodissociation, and photodesorption from surfaces
Dynamics of atomic clusters
Intermolecular forces
Few- and many-body theory of atomic collisions
Dynamics of stochastic molecular systems using density operator theory
Time-dependent molecular orbital theory and many-electron theory
Computational methods of molecular scattering and electronic structure
Computational methods for the molecular dynamics of extended systems
Visualization and animation of molecular phenomena

Director, Center for Chemical Physics, UF, 1982-91
Center for Chemical Physics Committee, UF, 1991-2002
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 1979-1988.
Member, Editorial Board, "Few-Body Systems" (Acta Physica Austriaca), 1985-present.
Vice-chairman and Chairman, American Physical Society Topical Group on Few-body Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics, 1986-89.
Editor, Plenum Publishing Corp. Book Series on "Finite Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics", 1990-2005.
Co-organizer, "Sanibel Symposium on Theory and Computation for the Molecular and Materials Sciences", Univ. of Florida, 1985-present.
Organizer, "US-Latin American Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Molecular and Materials Sciences", Univ. of Florida, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2001; Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1999, 2003, 2007.
Head, Division of Physical Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Univ. of Florida, 1999-2005
Organizer, Paris Workshop on the “Quantum Dynamics of Complex Molecular Systems”, 2005, 2007.