Fields of Interest

	Electron-induced chemistry When an electron is attached or transferred to a molecular system it may transfer part of its energy to the molecule in form of electronic or vibrational excitation, or it may induce chemical reactions, e.g. dissociative attachment. This is a major radical production step in many natural and technical processes.
	Dipole-bound, quadrupole-bound, and polarization bound anions This type of excess electron state is intrinsically fascinating, and if a molecule can also form a valence anion, the dipole-bound state can serve as a doorway for capture of slow (thermal) electrons.
	Excess electrons attached to water clusters A single water molecule cannot bind an electron, but several water molecules can team-up for the job. The resulting cluster anions are very challenging systems from a theoretical point of view, and we develop course grained models to describe these species.
	Ab initio methods for resonance states Resonances are states unstable with respect to electron autodetachment, i.e., one electron can simply leave the molecule, and the resonance state has a finite lifetime. Standard bound state ab initio methods cannot be directly applied to this type of state, but need to be modified to account for the finite lifetime of the system.

Main page