Gustavo Velardez Post-Doctoral fellow Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) and National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), 1995
Mailing address: Kemsik Institut Kemitorret Bygn.207 Danmarks Tekniske Universitet 2800 Kgs. Lyngby Danmark Email: gust@kemi.dtu.dk

RESEARCH INTERESTS

-combustion reactions
-ionic liquids
-hydrogen bond clusters
-collisional energy transfer

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Chemistry, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) and National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). Córdoba, Argentina, 1995.

B.S. Chemistry, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). Córdoba, Argentina, 1990

PUBLICATIONS

Dependence of the collisional relaxation of highly vibrationally excited polyatomic molecules on the population distribution function.
E. A. Coronado, C. A. Rinaldi, Gustavo. F. Velardez and J. C. Ferrero.
Chem. Phys. Lett, 227 (1994) 164.

Quasiclassical trajectory simulations of collisional vibrationally excited HgBr(B²S). II.
Dependence on rotational excitation at initial vibrational energy (v=52).
Gustavo. F. Velardez, R. A. Bollati and J. C. Ferrero.
J. Chem. Phys., 108, 5338 (1998).

Trajectory calculations of intermolecular energy transfer in H₂O + Ar collisions.
E. A. Coronado, Gustavo. F. Velardez and J. C. Ferrero.
J. Phys. Chem. A, 103, 5409 (1999).

Ab initio study of the P* <– n electronic transition in formic acid-(water)_1,2 hydrogen bonded complexes.
Gustavo. F. Velardez, Jean Louis Heully, J. Alberto Beswick and Jean Pierre Daudey.
Phys. Chem. Comm, 1999, 6. (http://www.rsc.org/ej/qu/1999/B9904105/index.htm)

The collisional relaxation of highly vibrationally excited molecules.
Gustavo. F. Velardez, E. A. Coronado and J. C. Ferrero.
Res. Adv. in Physical Chem. 1, 1 (2000).

Ab initio study of the structures and P* <– n electronic transition in formic acid-(water)_n (n= 3, 4, 5) hydrogen bonded complexes.
Gustavo. F. Velardez, Juan C. Ferrero, J. Alberto Beswick and Jean Pierre Daudey.
J. Phys. Chem. A, 105, 8769 (2001).

Molecular Dynamics Study of Melting and Liquid Properties of Ammonium Dinitramide.
Gustavo. F. Velardez, Saman Alavi, and Donald L. Thompson.
J. Chem. Phys., 119, 6698-6708 (2003).

Molecular Dynamics Studies of Nanoparticles of Energetic Materials.
Saman Alavi, Gustavo. F. Velardez, and Donald L. Thompson.
Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 800, 328-338 (2004).

Molecular Dynamics Studies of Melting and Solid-State Transitions of Ammonium Nitrate.
Gustavo. F. Velardez, Saman Alavi, and Donald L. Thompson.
J. Chem. Phys., 120, 9151-9159 (2004).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Teaching assistant at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC).
Subject: collisional energy transfer, hydrogen bond clusters.

Post-doctoral research fellow at IRSAMC-LCAR, Université Paul Sabatier. Toulouse, France.
March 1998-July 1999 and May-August 2001. SECyT (Argentina) and ECOS-Sud (France).

PhD Student at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) and CONICET. Córdoba. Argentina.
Title: Time resolved study of physical and chemical processes in vibrationally excited molecules.
March 1992-November 1995.