Dr. Piotr Petelenz
Professor
Cheimstry
Jagiellonian University
Poland
Biography
Dr. Piotr Petelenz is the Professor of Chemistry in Jagiellonian University. He has been to the positions of Post-doctoral Fellow (1977–78) and Visiting Professor (1986–88) at Queen’s University,Kingston, Canada; Visiting Research Officer at National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada (1981, 1982, 1993); Visiting Professor at Ulm University, Germany (1983) and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (1985, 1990); Visiting Fellow in ResearchSchool of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra (1983); Lecturer (2001)at Fermi School of Physics, Varenna, Italy. Current research focused on theoretical interpretation of electro-optical properties of organic solids, with special emphasis on the role of charge-transfer states, vibronic coupling and polaritonic effects. Recent accomplishment: a new approach to vibronic coupling in molecular crystals, with CT and Frenkel excitons treated on equal footing.
Research Interest
Theoretical Chemistry
Publications
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Mazur G., Petelenz P., Slawik M., Theoretical calculations of the electroabsorption spectra of perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride, J. Chem. Phys., 118, 1423–1432, 2003.
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Andrzejak M., Petelenz P., Slawik M., Munn R.W., Theoretical calculations of the electroabsorption spectrum of the sexithiophene single crystal, J. Chem. Phys., 117, 1328– 1335, 2002.
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Pac B., Petelenz P., Slawik M., Munn R.W., Theoretical interpretation of the electro-absorption spectrum of fullerene fi lms, J. Chem. Phys., 109, 7932–7939, 1998.
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Bounds P.J., Siebrand W., Petelenz P., Charge transfer excitons in anthracene crystals. A theoretical investigation of their optical absorption and thermal dissociation, Chem. Phys., 63, 303–320, 1981.
