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THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY
My research is focused on the study of time-dependent processes in liquids and solutions, an important goal being to understand them at the microscopic level. The basic tools are the techniques of modern nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, with a major emphasis in developing simple but accurate approximations that do not require extensive computations. The current work is directed at understanding the influence of the solvent (through equilibrium and nonequilibrium solvation) on the rates of electron transfer and of bond-breaking and bond-forming reactions in solution. An important objective is the development of accurate approximation methods for the study of the influence of the enviroment on complex photoreactive systems, such as dyads and triads comprising covalently bonded electron donors and acceptors designed to achieve fast charge transfer over large distances.
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