People associated with the Centre for Cosmic Chemistry and Physics
There are a number of academics now associated with the UCL centre and these can divided into members from the Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and past members of the group:
Professor of Physical Chemistry at UCL. Supervises the work in the Cosmic Dust Lab.
Research interests:
Structure and reactions of short-lived ions.
Using coincidence techniques to study reaction dynamics.
Development of time and flight mass spectrometers.
PhD student working with Prof Stephen Price, Dr Wendy Brown and Dr Serena Viti in the Cosmic Dust Lab, Surface Science Lab and Physics and Astronomy department.
Ms Elspeth Latimer
PhD student working with Prof Stephen Price in the Cosmic Dust Lab.
Professor in Astrophysics at UCL.
Theoretical work on cosmic dust composition and the role of surface chemistry in the interstellar medium.
Provides observational support and analysis/interpretation of existing observational data.
Research interests cover a wide range of theoretical and observational topics in molecular astrophysics, but are largely centred on the study of stellar outflows and protostellar inflows.
Professor in Physics at UCL.
Involved in theoretical work on reaction rates, particularly on the construction of potential energy surfaces for molecules near the surfaces using density functional theory.
Lecturer in Computational Chemistry at Sheffield University. Currently works in collaboration with Prof. A. J. Fisher of UCL and proveides a theoretical complement experiments done in the group of Prof. S. D. Price at UCL and astronomical modelling and observations done in the groups of Prof. D. A. Williams and Prof. J. Rawlings.
Research in David's group is involved with theory and computer simulation on the reactions, energy transfer and dynamics of polyatomic molecules. This includes problems in the gas phase, clusters, solid surfaces and biomolecules. The work connects up with many areas of chemistry, and he has close links with the UCL Cosmic Chemistry Centre.