PICNIC
Network
PARTNERS
Amplitude Technologies, France
Laser Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group
Project leader: Prof. Michael N.R. Ashfold mike.ashfold@bris.ac.uk
PICNIC research assistant: Dr. N. Hendrik Nahler (03.2003 to 10.2003, hendrik.nahler@bris.ac.uk now Marie-Curie fellow)
PICNIC PhD students: Bríd Cronin (10.2003 onwards) brid.cronin@bris.ac.uk and Bertrand Retail (10.2004 onwards) br2093@bristol.ac.uk
Group members associated with PICNIC project: Olivier P.J. Vieuxmaire (3rd year PhD student) o.vieuxmaire@bris.ac.uk and Mike G.D. Nix (2nd year PhD student) mike.nix@bris.ac.uk
Our group covers the following research areas within the PICNIC network:
Photochemistry of gas phase molecules, including species of atmospheric importance - molecular photodissociation dynamics using the techniques of H (Rydberg) atom photofragment translational spectroscopy and photofragment ion (velocity map) imaging. For more information on these and on other research fields visit our group's website.
We are collaborating with the group of Prof. Dave Parker in Nijmegen (joint publication: pdf) studying the preparation and dissociation of BrCl+. In another collaboration with the group of Prof. Theofanis Kitsopoulos in Heraklion we are investigating the dissociative photoionisation of pyrrole.
For further details on our scientific work within the network, click on a project below:
Photodissociation studies of state selected molecular ions by velocity map ion imaging