Nambu Shinkoh

April,1988-March,1994
Doctoral research in Keio University; the research title is “Theoretical studies of the potential energy surfaces for the excited statea and the reaction dynamics.” Prof. Suehiro IWATA is a supervisor for the thesis.
April,1994-March,1997
The idea of molecular switching was proposed with Prof. Hiroki NAKAMURA in IMS and Prof. F. O. Goodman in Waterloo university. The titile of the correspoinding paper is “Molecular switching in one-dimensional finite periodic nonadiabatic tunneling potential systems.”
September,1995-March,2002
The highly vibrational states were theoretically explored with Prof. Mutsumi AOYAGI in Kyushu university.
June,1999-December,1999
The reaction dynamics, especially the idea of transition wavepacket method was developed in Argonne national laboratory. The host professors are Prof. Stephen K. GRAY and Albert F. WAGNER.
April,1994-present
My research concerns mostly the development and application of methods to determine and analyze quantum mechanics of chemical reactions. One of my recent interests related to the quantum phenomena is non-adiabatic transition which could occur in various fields, such as chemistry, physics, biology, and economy. I am also interested in high performance computing (HPC), because I believe that the HPC would provide us “break-through” on our new science.

2015-2016 Chemistry division director in Graduate School of Science and Technology
2012-2013 A member of Educational affairs committee
2010-2012 Chemistry division director in Graduate School of Science and Technology
2012 Promotion committee in Faculty of Science and Technology
2012- Research member in Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies

My research concerns mostly the development and application of methods to determine and analyze quantum mechanics of chemical reactions. One of my recent interests related to the quantum phenomena is non-adiabatic transition which could occur in various fields, such as chemistry, physics, biology, and economy. I am also interested in high performance computing (HPC), because I believe that the HPC would provide us “break-through” on our new science. My actual research project is as follows;
(i) Quantum and semi-classical wavepacket dynamics – photo-dissociation process and reactive scattering,
(ii) Molecular switching – a new proposal of hydrogen encapsulation with an aggressive use of non-adiabatic phenomena,
(iii) Rigorous theoretical calculation for ro-vibrational motions of tri-atomic systems – including Coriolis coulping and Renner-Teller coupling,
(iv) Theoretical determination of isotopic fractionation constants, and so on.

(Subject of research)
Photo-chemical reaction in condensed phase