Giovanni Meloni
University of San Francisco, USA
Biography
Giovanni Meloni, Associate Professor and Von Soosten Chair, is a physical chemist. Prior to joining the University of San Francisco, Prof. Meloni carried out post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and at Sandia National Laboratories. In this research, he used state-of-the-art techniques, both experimental and computational, to study transition states, semiconductor clusters, and van der Waals species employing anion photoelectron spectroscopy, and hydrocarbon radicals using pulsed-laser photolytic initiation and continuous-laser absorption detection. Prof. Meloni's current research interests range from high-temperature physical chemistry to spectroscopic characterization of reaction intermediates important to atmospheric and combustion chemistry.