Kostas Kalogerakis
Senior Chemical Physicist
Molecular Physics Laboratory

Dr. Konstantinos S. Kalogerakis has been a research staff member in the Molecular Physics Laboratory of SRI International since February 2001. His research interests include the study of energy transfer processes in excited electronic states relevant to the upper terrestrial and planetary atmospheres. He has also worked with Dr. G. W. Faris on nonlinear spectroscopy techniques to study stimulated scattering in supercritical fluids, and on biomedical and microfluidics projects.

During his graduate studies at Stanford University, he studied the microscopic dynamics of gas-phase chemical reactions using laser spectroscopic, mass-spectrometric and molecular beam techniques. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, U.K., he complemented his background with studies on the stereodynamics of chemical reactions. In 1996-98, he was a college lecturer at Keble College, University of Oxford, UK.

Selected Publications

D. A. Pejaković, K. S. Kalogerakis, R. A. Copeland, and D. L. Huestis, "Laboratory Determination of the Rate Coefficient for Three-Body Recombination of Oxygen Atoms in Nitrogen," J. Geophys. Res. 113, A04303 (2008).

K. S. Kalogerakis, B. H. Blehm, R. E. Forman, C. Jirauschek, and G. W. Faris, "Stimulated Rayleigh and Brillouin Scattering in a Supercritical Fluid," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 2040-2045 (2007).

D. A. Pejaković, E. R. Wouters, K. E. Phillips, T. G. Slanger, R. A. Copeland, and K. S. Kalogerakis, "Collisional Removal of O₂(b¹Σ_g⁺, v = 1) by O₂ at Thermospheric Temperatures," J. Geophys. Res. 110, A03308 (2005).

K. S. Kalogerakis, R. A. Copeland, and T. G. Slanger, "Vibrational Energy Transfer in O₂(X³Σ_g^-, v = 2,3) + O₂ Collisions at 330 K," J. Chem. Phys. 123, 044309 (2005).

K. S. Kalogerakis, R. A. Copeland, and T. G. Slanger, "Collisional Removal of O₂(b¹Σ_g⁺, v = 2, 3)," J. Chem. Phys. 116, 4877-4885 (2002).

M. Brouard, D. W. Hughes, K. S. Kalogerakis, and J. P. Simons, "The Product Rovibrational and Spin-Orbit State Dependent Dynamics of the Complex Reaction H + CO₂ -> OH(²Π, v, N, f) + CO: Memories of a Lifetime," J. Chem. Phys., 112, 4557-4571 (2000).

M. Brouard, D. W. Hughes, K. S. Kalogerakis, and J. P. Simons, "An Experimental Study of the Dynamics of the Reaction H + CO2 -> OH(v´, j´, f) + CO: Product State-Resolved Differential Cross Sections and Translational Energy Release Distributions," J. Phys. Chem. A, 102, 9559-9564 (1998).

A. J. Alexander, M. Brouard, K. S. Kalogerakis, and J. P. Simons, "Chemistry with a Sense of Direction—the Stereodynamics of Bimolecular Reactions," Chem. Soc. Reviews, 27, 405-415 (1998).

K. S. Kalogerakis and R. N. Zare, "Angular Momentum and Energy Conservation Control of the Specific Opacity Functions for the Reaction Ba + HI -> BaI + H," J. Chem. Phys., 104, 7947-7964 (1996).