RESEARCH COLLABORATORS


Supervision of Doctoral Dissertations

(Directed at the University of Florida)



1. Michael J. Redmon, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1973, "Dynamics of Alkali Atom- Halogen Atom Collisions"

2.
John C. Bellum, Ph.D., Physics, 1976, "Electronic and Dynamic Aspects of Diatomic Systems"

3.
Zeki C. Kuruoglu, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1978, "Three-Body Theory and Computational Aspects of Collisions between Atoms and Diatomic Molecules"

4.
Lyntis H. Beard, Jr., Ph.D., Chemistry, 1979, "Energy Transfer and Dissociation in Hyperthermal Atom-Diatom Collisions"

5.
Larry R. Relyea, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1980, "Theory of Ionizing Atomic Collisions at Thermal Energy"

6.
Eduardo F. Vilallonga, Ph.D., Physics, 1981, "Energy Transfer in Molecular Collisions"

7. John A. Olson, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1982, "Dynamics of Diabatic Atom- Diatom Reactions at Low Energies"

8.
Cliff  D. Stodden, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1987, "Photodissociation of Polyatomic Molecules; State-to-State Cross Sections from the Selfconsistent Eikonal Method"

9. Zaida Parra-Gonzalez, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1988, "Scattering of Atoms by Solid Surfaces and by Adsorbates"

10.
Deepak Srivastava, Ph.D. Physics, 1988, "Photoexcitation of Polyatomic Systems"

11. Joel M. Cohen, M.Sc., Chemistry, 1988, "Computational Studies of Molecular Collisions"

12.
Joel M. Cohen, Ph.D. , Chemistry, 1990, "Computational Aspects of Electronically Diabatic Molecular Collisions"

13. Q. Feng, Ph.D. , Physics, 1991, "A Time-Dependent Molecular Orbital Approach to Ion- Solid Surface Collisions"

14. Keith Runge, Ph.D. Physics, 1993, "Time-Dependent Many-Electron Theory of Atomic Interactions"

15.
Dario Beksic, Ph.D., Physics, 1994, "Electronically Diabatic Photodesorption of Molecules Adsorbed on Metal Surfaces"

16. Robert Asher, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1995 (D. A. M. and P. Brucat co-chairs), "Experimental and Theoretical Investigation and Characterization of Small Molecular Ions".

17. Herbert daCosta, Ph. D., Chemistry, 1998, "Time-Dependence of Light Emission and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Slow Atom-Atom Collisions".

18. Zhigang Yi, Ph. D., Physics, 1998, "Computational Aspects of the Quantum Molecular Dynamics of Adsorbates"

19.
Andres Reyes, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2003, "Density Matrix Theory and Computational Aspects of Atomic Collisions Including Spin-Orbit Coupling"

20.
Alberto Santana, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2003, "Photoinduced Quantum Dynamics of Adsorbates at Surfaces"

21. Brian Thorndyke, Ph. D., Physics, 2004 "Quantum Dynamics of Finite Atomic and Molecular Systems Through Density Matrix Methods"

22. Alexander Pacheco, Ph. D., Chemistry, 2006 "First Principles Dynamics of Transient Light Absorption and Emission of Alkali Atoms Interacting with Rare Gas Atoms"

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David Micha's research group (1996-2008)

  • Dr. Dmitri Kilin, postdoctoral research associate
  • Andrew Leathers, graduate research assistant
  • Jessica Ramirez, undergraduate research student
  • Dr. Keith Runge, 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. 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
  • Sebastien Villaume, REU undergraduate research assistant, graduate
  • Nicolas Finck, REU undergraduate research assistant, graduate
  • Shannon Wallace, undergraduate research student, graduate
  • Atchar Sudhyadhom, undergraduate research student, graduate

Other collaborators (1996-2008)

  • Dr. Robert Asher (Argonne Nat. Laboratory)
  • Dr. Dario Beksic (Univ. Autonoma, Barcelona, Spain)
  • Prof. Philip Brucat (Univ. of Florida)
  • Prof. Gerardo Delgado Barrio (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. 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. Clifford Stodden (St Petersburg Comm. College, Florida)
  • Prof. Peter Toennies (MPI fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen, Germany)
  • Lic. Jose Luis Vega (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • Dr. Irene Burghardt (ENS, Paris)