EC RESEARCH TRAINING NETWORK
Contract Nr. HPRN-CT-2000-00006

is funded by the European Commission in the framework of the research and technological development programme "Improving the Human Research Potential and the Socio-economic Knowledge Base" (Fifth Framework Programme of the European Community).

The overall objectives of the REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES network are the development of methods of detection of reactive species in situ; their production in a laboratory environment, to allow further study of their chemistry, and the study of their reactions in the laboratory, in order to allow inferences to be made regarding their reactivity in more complicated systems. In order to allow more focused discussion of the proposed scientific work, the overall objectives have been divided into five key areas:

1) Characterisation of Electronically Excited States of Reactive Intermediates

2) Spectroscopy of Cations

3) Reactive Intermediates Produced bv Photolysis and Pyrolysis

4) Ion-Molecule Reactions as a Function of Pressure, Temperature and Size

5) Heterogeneous Processes on Solid Surfaces and Clusters

The Project has started on September 1st, 2000 and will continue until August 31st, 2004. In the research programme predoctoral and postdoctoral positions are available. Under the terms of the programme, the young researchers who are successful applicants for the supported positions must be aged 35 years or less, and must be nationals of a Community Member State or a State associated with the EC programme (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia). Subject to its final conclusion, an Association Agreement signed with the Swiss Confederation is expected to enter into force on 01.01.2001. The young researchers must not be nationals of the state in which the participant appointing them is established, and must not have carried out their normal activities in that state for more than 12 of the 24 months prior to their appointment

Enquiries about the research programme and about available positions should be addressed directly to one of the group leaders of the network

Prof. John M. Dyke, Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK;
email jmdyke@soton.ac.uk; phone +44-2380-593590; fax +44-2380-593781

Prof. Cornelis A. de Lange, Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127-129, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
email delange@science.uva.nl; phone +31-20-5256994; fax +31-20-5256994

Prof. W. Ubachs, Department of Physics, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
email wimu@nat.vu.nl; phone +31-20-4447948; fax: +31-20-4447999

Prof. Dolores Gauyacq, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moleculaire, Batiment 210, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France;
email Dolores.Gauyacq@ppm.u-psud.fr; phone +33-1-69156307; fax +33-1-69156777

Prof. Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos, FORTH, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, PO Box 1527, Vasilika Vouton, 71110 Heraklion, Greece;
email theo@iesl.forth.gr; phone:  +30 (810) 391467;  fax:+30 (810) 391318 

Dr. Andy J. Bell, DERA, CB Systems, CBD Porton Down, Salisbury SP4 0JQ, UK;
email ajbell@dera.gov.uk; phone +44-1980-613634; fax +44-1980-613834

Prof. Maria de Lourdes Costa, Departamento de Fisica / Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2825-114 Monte de Caparica, Portugal;
email mllc@fct.unl.pt; phone +351-1-2948576; fax +351-1-2948549

Prof. Vladimir Bondybey, Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, Garching, Germany;
email bondybey@ch.tum.de; phone +49-89-28913421; fax +49-89-28913416

Dr. Gökhan Baykut, Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Applications Department, Postfach 330126, 28331 Bremen, Germany;
email gb@bdal.de; phone +49-421-2205164; fax +49-421-2205101 or +49-421-2205108