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Jonathan Tennyson

Massey Professor of Physics Fellow of The Royal Society Department of Physics and Astronomy, Postal address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK EMAIL: j.tennyson@ucl.ac.uk

Also see my Department entry

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 7809 (office),

                   +44 (0) 20 8341 0923 (home)

Fax (if you must): +44  (0) 20 7679 7145.

My office is A4 on the top floor of the Physics Building (see How to get here)

Member Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics Group

My research group is ThAMOS. (Also see Members)

PhD studentships available see here

NEW: Second edition of my book Astronomical Spectroscopy, read review of first edition from Contemporary Physics.

Chief Scientist, Quantemol Ltd

Post doctoral position available, details here

Leader of the ExoMol project: Molecular line lists for exoplanet and other atmospheres

Member, Collaborative Computational Project 2: Continuum States of Atoms & Molecules (CCP2)

My group develops and maintains the UK Molecular R-Matrix Codes

Member, Collaborative Computational Project 6: Molecular Quantum Dynamics (CCP6)

Click for free workshop booklets on

• CCP6 Molecular Quantum States at Dissociation

• CCP6 High accuracy potentials for quantum dynamics

• CCP2 Explicity Correlated Wavefunctions

• CCP2 Mathematical and Computational Methods in R-matrix Theory

Chair, IUPAC task group "A database of water transitions from experiment and theory"

International Advisory Board HITRAN

Chair, Hackney Chess Club

Associate Editor, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer

Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy

Correspondent for Physica Scripta, Comments on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (CAMOP).

Click here for a copy of an article `Water on the Sun: he Sun yields more secrets to spectroscopy' which describes (hopefully in simple language!) some of our work on water and here for short video about detect water on extrasolar planets.

See publications for a list of papers including copies of most recent ones and popular for other more general musings.

Molecular linelist and related data should be accessed via the ExoMol website

I also run a small ftp library where you can find a selection of:

• Programmes for calculating rotation-vibration spectra and wavepackets

• Molecular data for astronomy  H2 resonances and some Jupiter stuff

• Experimental energy levels for water

• PhD Theses from my group.

• Molecular linelists

I also play the students at cricket!

I have three sons Alex, Matthew and Freddy and a younger daughter Eleanor, and other family connections