Andrea PELUSO | Curriculum

Andrea Peluso received the degree in chemistry, summa cum laude, from the University Federico II of Naples, Italy, in 1983. In the same year he obtained a post-doctoral position at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany, Ladik's group, where he worked on electron-phonon interaction in organic semiconductors. In 1986 he joined Enichem SPA, Milano, Italy, working on electroluminescent materials and devices; on leave of absence, he was in Canada, as a post-doctoral boursier, at Universitè de Montreal, Salahub's group, to work on the development of methods based on the density functional theory and their applications to chemical reactivity (1987-1988). From 1989, he was at University of Naples, Del Re's group, working on the theory of electron transfer, and teaching Chemistry in high school as winner of a public national competition. From 1991 he is at the University of Salerno, in the Chemistry department, where now he is associate professor of Physical Chemistry. He was at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (F), as invited professor (July 1997). His main research interests concern with: i) quantum dynamics of ultrafast photochemical processes; ii) redox processes in biochemical systems, in particular photosynthetic reaction centers and DNA; iii) theoretical design of new materials for non-linear optics; iv) DNA oxidative damages; v) analysis of spectral band shapes via calculation of Franck-Condon factors, which has led to the development of the MolFC package for the calculation of Franck-Condon factors and Herzberg-Teller effects, freely distributed and actually in use in several worldwide labs.