Yuri Ralchenko Associate Research Scientist, IREAP (Dr. Ralchenko's office is located at NIST) Mailing Address: Atomic Physics Division 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8422 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8422 Phone: (301) 975-3210 Email: yuri.ralchen at nist.gov

Dr. Yuri Ralchenko received his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics in 1988 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The title of his thesis is "Six-Quark Resonances in the QCD String Model." From 1987-2002 Dr. Ralchenko worked as a scientist at the Institute of Spectroscopy, Troitsk, Russia. From 1992-2002 he was an Associate Staff Scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He has been an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland since 2002.

Dr. Ralchenko's research is focused on the development of Internet atomic databases, high-precision atomic structure calculations, and the modeling of plasma population kinetics and other aspects of plasma spectroscopy. This work includes multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock and Dirac-Fock calculations of atomic properties (energies, oscillator strengths, etc.), development of methods for disseminating scientific data over the World Wide Web, collisional-radiative modeling of non-Maxwellian transient plasmas, and quantum-mechanical calculations of electron-impact broadening in multiply-charged ions.

Related websites:
Experimental Plasma Physics Group