Branko Ruscic is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow in the Gas Phase Chemical Physics group in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory.

Education

• Ph.D. (dr. rer. nat.) in Physical Chemistry, University of Zagreb, 1979
• B.Sc. (dipl. eng.) in Chemistry, University of Zagreb, 1975

 

Research Interests

• Development of the general concept of Active Tables that treats, statistically analyses, and optimizes data with massive, plural, and possibly incongruent interdependencies.
• Implementation of the Active Tables approach to thermodynamics as Active Thermochemical Tables (ATcT), which produce thermochemistry of unprecedented accuracy, robustness, and reliability.
• Development of the underlying ATcT Thermochemical Network (TN), which currently (December 2018) contains >25000 thermochemically relevant determinations, defining the thermochemistry of ~1950 chemical species relevant in combustion, atmospheric chemistry, and astrochemistry.
• Using ATcT results for the development and benchmarking of state-of-the-art electronic structure methods, which are capable of achieving sub-kJ/mol accuracies.
• Study of radicals and other transient species by photoionization mass spectrometry, photoelectron spectroscopy, and related experimental techniques, using conventional laboratory light sources, lasers, and synchrotrons.
• Application of theoretical methods to thermochemistry and spectroscopy.
• Scientific computing.

Selected Publications

 

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  B. P. Changala, T. Nguyen, J. Baraban, B. G. Ellison, J. Stanton, D. H. Bross, and B. Ruscic. ​“Active Thermochemical Tables:  The Adiabatic Ionization Energy of Hydrogen Peroxide”. J. Phys. Chem. A, 121, 8799 (2017). Journal Issue Cover.

 

Full publication list available at ORCID and Google Scholar.