Wolfgang Domcke
Born February 17, 1948 in Munich, Germany
Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Email:domcke@ch.tum.de
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Editor of Chemical Physics.
Author of:
About 240 research papers in chemical physics and theoretical chemistry.
Important Contributions:
Development of theoretical concepts and methods:
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Theory of vibronic coupling and vibrational structure of electronic spectra of polyatomic molecules
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Theory of nuclear dynamics in resonant electron-molecule scattering
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Time-dependent wave-packet methods for the description of the photophysics and photochemistry at conical intersections of potential-energy surfaces
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Microscopic description of dissipative phenomena in large molecules and chromophores in condensed phases
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Theory of femtosecond time-resolved nonlinear spectroscopy: nonperturbative nonlinear optics, fs time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
Applications:
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Calculations of the vibrational structure of numerous electronic spectra
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Calculations of cross sections for inelastic electron-molecule scattering, dissociative attachment and associative detachment;
analysis of threshold phenomena in low-energy electron collisions with polar molecules
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Ultrafast photochemical dynamics (radiationless decay, photoisomerization) at conical intersections in various molecular systems
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Vibronic and radiationless dynamics of high Rydberg states of polyatomic molecules
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Ab initio exploration of photochemical reaction mechanisms in molecules (e.g., aromatic H-bonded systems, amino acids, DNA bases),
clusters (e.g., chromophore-water clusters) and radicals (e.g., solvated electron)
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Modeling of ultrafast photoinduced electron-transfer processes and conductance of molecular wires
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Calculations of various femtosecond time-resolved spectra (transient transmittance, time-resolved fluorescence,
time-resolved photoelectron spectra) for a variety of systems
