María Luisa Senent Diez Investigadora Científica del CSIC Departamento de Química y Física Teóricas  “Theoretical Chemistry Team (TCT)” Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC. Serrano 121, Madrid 28006, España. Tf: +34-91.5616800      FAX: +34-915645557 E_mail: senent@iem.cfmac.csic.es					TCT
Papers (Publicaciones)			Conferences (Congresos)	ENEDIM	FIT-ESPEC	CAPZEO FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES
Recent papers and Conferences			Research interest	Líneas de Investigación	PREMIO “SALVADOR SENENT” Grupo de Didáctica e Historia de la Física y de la Química (Reales Sociedades de Física y Química)
Some of my papers “Comentario y traducción del artículo "Unicum opticae, catoptricae et dioptricae principium", de G. W. Leibniz”, "Estudios sobre Historia de la Ciencia y de la Técnica II", Junta de Castilla y León, Vol.2. pag. 1055, Valladolid 1988. “Historia de la Física en el siglo XIX. La Química Física en el siglo XIX”, Real Academia de las Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Madrid 1987. “El rol fundamental de los métodos ab initio en Astroquímica”, An.Quim., 2009, 105(4), 257-264 “El laboratorio de Química Cuántica del edificio Rockefeller” (Instituto Rocasolano 75 Aniversario)
	Research interests By using state-of-the-art ab initio methods, we determine molecular properties of relevant species for Astrochemistry (as are short carbon and silicon carbon chains, complex organic molecules, and diatomic and triatomic species). We study three types of problems: Characterization of the structure of new low stability species or uncharacterized species (non-rigid or semi-rigid), transition frequencies and excitation coefficients…, predicting from the Potential Energy Surfaces of the different electronic states, conical intersections, and rovibronic, Renner-Teller, Spin-Orbit, … effects. Cross sections and rates determination for non reactive inelastic collisional processes. We focus our attention on collisions of the most abundant astrophysical species with H2 and He. Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of formation processes. Special attention is given to the iomerization and anion formation processes. My codes: ENEDIM and FIT-ESPEC (rovibrational structure)
Short Curriculum Vitae Education and previous positions: Bachelor: 1980, Universidad de Valladolid PhD. 1992, Universidad de Valladolid-CSIC, supervisor Y.G.Smeyers Research Assistant: 1992-1995, Brock University (Canada), Bologna University, CINECA Docent in Physical Chemistry 1995-1996 (Universidad de Burgos) Tenured Scientist (CSIC): 1998-2005 Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC Current positions: Research Scientist (CSIC), 2005 Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC Head of the team of theoretical chemistry (TCT) of the Theoretical Chemistry and Physics Department, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Member of the Royal Society and the American Chemical Society Invited Professor in Paris-Est University, Observatoire de Paris Meudon, Akron University (USA), National Institute of Standard and technology (NIST), Brock University (USA), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Bologna University, Oxford University, Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Antofagasta, Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México, INAOE Mexico, University of Túnez “El Manar”. Participation in research projects of Astrochemistry In 2003, Scientific founder of Department of Molecular and Infrared Astrophysics at the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC. First Spanish chemist financed by the Astronomy and Astrophysical national projects Organizer of activities to promote collaborations among astrophysicists and Spanish chemical physicists. Participant in the following EU programs: a) “The Molecular Universe: an interdisciplinary program on the physics and chemistry of molecules in space” (2004-2007) b) "Development and application of combined treatments involving relaxation, correlation and relativistic effects in the computation of core excitation, valence ionization and bond dissotation energies for increasingly complex systems" (1998-2001) c) “Experimental and theoretical determination of spectroscopic constants and molecular properties o stable and reactive species of atmospheric, astrophysical and chemical importance” (1993-1996)