Information

Membership Number: FCA1161

Membership Type: Full Fellowship

Division: Natural Sciences

Corresponding Email: ***loff1948@gmail.com

Homepage(s): https://chemistry.huji.ac.il/people/ronnie-kosloff

Present and Previous Positions

Professor of theoretical chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry and Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Coherent chemistry: light induced processes. 

Coherent control and laser cooling. 

Dynamical processes on surfaces. 

Quantum thermodynamics. 

Computational and teaching methods.

"Quantum molecular dynamics constitutes the thrust of my research. The goal is to gain insight into realistic elementary chemical encounters. This requires the development and application of a quantum description to molecular processes. In particular the emphasis is on time-dependent approaches which can follow naturally the stream of events."

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science

Member of Academia Europaea

Feher Prize for distinguished researchers in science (1995) 

Kolthoff Prize(2003) 

The Israel Chemical Society Prize of Excellence (2007)

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MIp5a5YAAAAJ&hl=en

Other Information

Major Contribution:

Development of time dependent quantum mechanical methods for molecular dynamics. Introduction of wavepacket representation by the Fourier method. Optimization of the representation and convergence analysis using classical phase space pictures. Adopting absorbing boundary conditions. Development of efficient and accurate time dependent global propagation methods based on the Chebychev polynomial expansion of the evolution operator. Development of propagation methods for explicitly time dependent problems. Extending the propagation methods to nonunitary evolution such as in the dissipative Liouville von Neumann equation. Developing polynomial expansions for the Green's function. Study of mean field time dependent methods. Applications to: dynamics at surfaces, ultrafast photochemistry. Development of time dependent methods for coherent control. Pump-dump schemes. Optimal control theory and pulse shaping. Laser cooling and control methods in dissipative environments. Quantum thermodynamics. Quantum heat engines and refrigerators and the approach to the absolute zero temperature.