Luis G. C. Rego

Education

1997 – Ph.D. in Physics: Universidade Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP &
Insitute for Microstructural Sciences, Ottawa, Canada

1992 – M.Sc. in Physics:
Universidade Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP (State University of Campinas)

1990 – B.Sc. in Physics: Universidade de São Paulo-USP (University of São Paulo)

Academic Positions

Professor, Department of Physics, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), 2003 – present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Synchrotron Light Source (LNLS), Brazil, 2001
Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, 1997-1999

Main Research Interersts:

• Theory of nano and mesoscopic systems.
• Excited-State Nonadiabatic Dynamics.
• Electron and energy transport in molecular and solid state systems.
• Development of hybrid Quantum-Classical simulation methods.

Our research focuses on the development of nonadibatic excited-state molecular dynamics and hybrid quantum-classical simulation methods for large scale molecular and mesoscopic systems. Research activities include: the development of theoretical methods for studying charge and energy transfer dynamics in supramolecular systems; the description of coherent electron-phonon and electron-hole dynamics; photoexcitation and charge separation in light-harvesting molecular systems; photoisomerization and mechanisms for quantum control by optical pulses. Some of the physical systems of interest are organic heterostructures, interfaces, dye-sensitized solar cells, transition metal charge-transfer complexes and solvation dynamics. Theoretical formalisms being used include semi-empirical as well as ab initio methods.