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
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. |
[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.
[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.