Stavros C. Farantos

Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Affiliated Research Scientist in IESL-FORTH

Tel: +30 2810 545061
Fax: +30 2810 545001
E-mail: farantos@iesl.forth.gr
URL: http://tccc.iesl.forth.gr

Education & Work experience

Born                                           : June 3rd, 1951, Piraeus.                        

October 1969 - June 1973              : First degree in Chemistry,

                                                   Department of Chemistry, University of Athens.

October 1973 - February 1976        : Military service.              

April 1976 - September 1978          : Ph. D. degree in Theoretical Chemistry,

                                                  University of Sussex (Title :

                                                  Potential Energy Surfaces and Molecular

                                                  Dynamics of Chlorine - Oxygen system

                                                  Supervisor: Professor John N. Murrell (FRS).

October 1978 - October 1981         :Research Fellow, School of

                                                  Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex.          

November 1981-September 1984    : Research Scientist, Theoretical and

                                                  Physical Chemistry Institute, National

                                                  Hellenic Research Foundation.

October 1984 - July 1989               :Assistant Professor in Chemistry,

                                                  University of Crete, and Research

                                                  Scientist in the IESL, Foundation for

                                                  Research and Technology-Hellas.

July 1987 - September 1987            : Visiting Researcher, Department of

                                                  Chemistry, University of Bielefeld,  Germany.

July 1989 - June 1990                   : Visiting Professor, Departments of

                                                  Chemistry and Physics, University of

                                                   Southern California, California, USA.

August 1989 - March 1994             : Associate Professor in Chemistry,

                                                  University of Crete, and Research

                                                   Scientist in IESL, Foundation for

                                                  Research and Technology-Hellas.

April 1994 - Present                      : Professor in Chemistry,

                                                  University of Crete, and Research

                                                  Scientist in IESL, Foundation for

                                                  Research and Technology-Hellas.

 

                                             

Research interests

[1]  Spectroscopy, dynamics and thermodynamics of atomic and molecular clusters.
[2]  Theoretical  vibrational spectroscopy of small polyatomic molecules with atmospheric interest.
[3]  Elementary chemical reactions - isomerization, dissociation -  in small polyatomic molecules. Applications of nonlinear mechanics.
[4]  Energy localization and redistribution in biological molecules.
[5]  Development of methods and computer codes for novel high performance,
       high throughput computational schemes - Grid & Cloud computing - for classical and quantum dynamics.

      

Representative publications

      

[1] Vangelis Daskalakis, Stavros C. Farantos, and Constantinos Varotsis.
Assigning vibrational spectra of ferryl-oxo intermediates of Cytochrome c Oxidase by periodic orbits and Molecular Dynamics.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130(37):12385–12393, 2008.  

[2] Stavros C. Farantos, Reinhard Schinke, Hua Guo, and Marc Joyeux.
Energy Localization in Molecules, Bifurcation Phenomena, and their Spectroscopic Signatures: The Global View.
Chemical Reviews, 109(9), 4248-4271, 2009.

[3] Jaime Suarez, Stavros C. Farantos, Stamatis Stamatiadis, and Lucas Lathouwers.
A method for solving the molecular Schroedinger Equation in Cartesian coordinates via angular momentum projection operators.
Comp. Phys. Comm., 180:2025-2033, 2009.

[4] Massimiliano Porrini, Vangelis Daskalakis, S. C. Farantos, and Constantinos Varotsis.
Heme Cavity Dynamics of Photodissociated CO from ba3-Cytochrome c Oxidase: the Role of Ring-D Propionate.
J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 12129, 2009.

[5] R. Schinke, J. Suarez, and S. C. Farantos.
Photodissociation of N2O: Frustrated NN bond breaking causes difuse vibrational structures.
J. Chem. Phys. (Communication), 133, 091103, 2010.