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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida
Faculty Member UF Department of Chemistry and Physics

UF Department of Chemistry and Physics

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David A. Micha

Professor Emeritus

Research Focus

Our research deals with theoretical and computational aspects of molecular and materials sciences, with emphasis on the unified treatment of physical and chemical kinetics using quantum molecular dynamics. It includes collision-induced and photoinduced phenomena in the gas phase, clusters, and at solid surfaces. Present areas of research include optical and conductivity properties of semiconductor surfaces, as they relate to photovoltaics and to photocatalysis.

Education and Training

1967–1969: Research Scientist, University of California, La Jolla

1966–1967: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin Inst. Theoretical Chemistry

1962–1966: Fil. Doktor (D.Sc.), University of Uppsala, Sweden

1958–1962: Lic. Phys. (M.Sc.), University of Cuyo, Bariloche, Argentina Fil. Lic. (Ph.D.), University of Uppsala, Sweden

Selected Awards

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grants (1971–2014)

Fellow, American Physical Society (1976)

Listed in Who-is-Who in America, 49th and later editions (Marquis, 1995)

Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, (1971–1974)

U.S. Senior Scientist Award, A. Von Humboldt Foundation, W. Germany (1976 and 1996)

Selected Activities

Director, Center for Chemical Physics, UF (1982–1991)

Vice-chairman and Chairman, American Physical Society Topical Group on Few-body Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics (1986–1989)

Editor, Plenum Publishing Corp. Book Series on “Finite Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics” (1990–2005)

Co-organizer, “Sanibel Symposium on Theory and Computation for the Molecular and Materials Sciences”, UF (1985–present)

Organizer, “US-Latin American Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Molecular and Materials Sciences”, UF. (1993, 1994, 1997, 2001; Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1999, 2003, 2007)

Head, Division of Physical Chemistry, Chemistry Department, UF (1999–2005)

Selected Publications

David A. Micha “Molecular Interactions. Concepts and methods” (John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA) ISBN 9780470290743 , 397 pages (2020).

David A. Micha ”Generalized Response Theory for a Photoexcited Many-Atom System”, Advan. Quantum Chem. vol. 71, Chapter 8, pp. 195–220, editors J. R. Sabin and R. Cabrera-Trujillo, (Elsevier, 2015).

Han, Tijo Vazhappilly, David A. Micha, and Dmitri S. Kilin, “Relaxation of Photoexcited Electron−Hole Pairs at Si(111) Surfaces with Adsorbed Ag Monolayered Clusters of Increasing Size”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, 2905−2913. (doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03735)