Fabrizio Esposito

Interests are in the field of computational molecular dynamics, in particular the calculation of complete sets of rovibrationally detailed cross sections and rate coefficients for molecular collision processes and related problems. The field of applications of these data are in the modelling of rovibrational kinetics of air species (reentry of spacecrafts, atmospheric chemical kinetics), in nuclear fusion chemistry (divertor, negative ion production), and in astrochemistry. All the calculated data are currently used in the cold plasma modelling community. The current interests are about the quasiclassical method accuracy assessment in various kind of processes (energy transfer, reaction, dissociation/recombination), and collisional systems, in particular for air species. A criterion is proposed in order to put together quasi- and semi-classical methods for an accurate and numerically efficient calculation of inelastic processes.