Mass Spectrometry

Giovanni Meloni is a Professor, Chemistry Department Chair and a Physical Chemist. Prior to joining the University of San Francisco, he carried out Post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and at Sandia National Laboratories. In this research, he used state-of-the-art techniques, both experimental and computational,

to study transition states, semiconductor clusters, and van der Waals species employing anion photoelectron spectroscopy, and hydrocarbon radicals using pulsedlaser photolytic initiation and continuous-laser absorption detection. His current research interests range from high-temperature physical chemistry to spectroscopiccharacterization of reaction intermediates important to atmospheric and combustion chemistry, especially focusing on biofuel molecules.