Aristophanes Metropoulos Visiting Scholar ametrop@yahoo.gr

Education:

• Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, The Catholic University of America, USA (1978)
• M.S.,Molecular Physics, University of Maryland at College Park, USA (1973)
• Diploma in Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece (1964)

Research Experience:

• Senior Researcher, Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, NHRF, Atens, Greece (1980 - present)
• Visiting Scholar, University of Missouri, Department of Chemistry, Columbia, Missouri (2005-2006)
• Visiting Fellow, Emory University, Department of Chemistry, Cherry L. Emerson Center, Atlanta, Georgia (1995-1996)
• Visiting Fellow, Texas A&M University, Department of Marine Sciences, Theoretical Chemistry Group, Galveston, Texas (1983-1984)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland (1979-1980)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Catholic University of America, Department of Chemistry, Washington, DC (1978-1979)
• Visiting Fellow (summer visits): The Catholic University of America, Department of Chemistry, Washington, DC (1993 and 1994); University of Bonn, Physical Chemistry Institute, Bonn, Germany (1990 and 1992); Technical University of Wuppertal, Department of Chemistry, Wuppertal, Germany (1982, 1987, 1989 and 1991).

Teaching Experience:

• Taught courses in Chemical Kinetics (University of Missouri), Foundations of Chemistry (Moberly Area Community College), Group Theory and Numerical Analysis (National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)), Calculus (Southeastern College), and BASIC and Top-Down Design (University of Maryland, University College).

Research Interest:

• Ab initio large scale calculations of ground and excited states potential energy surfaces.
• Construction of diabatic states and calculation of predissociation widths.
• Fitting of potential energy surfaces.
• Calculations of resonances in chemical reactions.
• Quasi-classical trajectory calculations of energy transfer and reaction cross sections.
• Applications of the permutation-inversion group to chemical reactions.

Selected Publications:

• Metropoulos A., "Generation of the C₂H₃O⁺ ion in reactions of O(³P) with 2-butyne," International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 104, 482 (2005).

• Metropoulos A., "An ab initio study of the ground states of the vinoxy radical and of its ions," J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 674, 19 (2004).

• Metropoulos A., "On the feasibility of chemi-ion formation in the system CH₂CH(ã ⁴A' ') + O(³P)," J. Chem. Phys. 119, 12029 (2003).

• Metropoulos A., "The importance of the diabatic channels in the chemi-ionization reaction O(³P) + CH(ã⁴S^-)®HCO⁺(X¹S⁺) + e^-," J. Chem. Phys. 116, 6376 (2002).