Garikoitz Balerdi

TL;DR: This work explores the transition from the weak- to the strong-field regimes of laser control for the dissociation of a polyatomic molecule, methyl iodide, and finds that the control over the yield of the photodissociation reaction proceeds through the creation of a light-induced conical intersection.

TL;DR: High-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy reveals the quantum mechanical underpinnings of a 1,2-hydrogen shift reaction and reveals subtleties in the isomerization dynamics of neutral vinylidene, as well as vibronic coupling with an excited state of Vinylidene.

TL;DR: Femtosecond time-resolved velocity map imaging spectroscopy reveals specificity of the ultrafast carbon-iodine (C-I) bond breakage for a series of linear and branched alkyl iodides, due to the interplay between the pure reaction coordinate and the rest of the degrees of freedom associated with the molecular structure details.

TL;DR: The results of femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy experiments used to compare the electronic relaxation dynamics of aniline and d7-aniline following photoexcitation find that tunnelling does not play a role in the Electronic relaxation dynamics, which is surprising given that Tunnelling plays an important role inThe electronic relaxation of isoelectronic phenol and in pyrrole.

TL;DR: The real time dynamics of electronic predissociation of the CH3 radical from selected vibrational states of the 3pz Rydberg state have been measured for the first time using a novel methodology based on a femtosecond three-color experiment to generate, two-photon excite and ionize methyl radicals as a function of time in combination with velocity map imaging detection.