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ANTONIO REDONDO

Career Highlights

Redondo was a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Graduate Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in 1972. He was also awarded an IBM Graduate Fellowship (1974-76) during his time at the California Institute of Technology. He served as a research associate and visiting associate in chemistry each for a year at the California Institute of Technology. He also spent three years teaching physics for the Universidad de Los Andes, in Merida, Venezuela upon earning his doctorate. Dr. Redondo joined LANL in 1983 as a technical staff member of the Electronics Devices Research group and was named group leader of the Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics Group in 1994. He was presented an Award for Technical Accomplishment, Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, by Vice-president Al Gore at the White House, on March 31st, 1997. Redondo recieved the Los Alamos Achievement Award that same year. On the 25th of November, 1998 Redondo was given the Medalla Bicentenaria, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. This is the highest medal that this University confers for technical achievement; awarded by the Rector of the University in a special ceremony. Redondo became a Fellow of the World Technology Network in 1999, and recieved the Sandia National Laboratories Achievement Award in 2003.

Research Areas

Redondo's activities include development of theoretical biological approaches for studies of cell signaling cascades in collaboration with biologists at LANL and the National Institutes of Health. He is also involved with the development of coarse-grained molecular dynamics approaches to study polymers and biological molecules and is conducting large-scale quantum mechanical calculations of solids and organic/inorganic interfaces. Dr. Redondo's work impacts the fields of Catalysis, Solid Acid Catalysis, Partial Oxidation, Polymer Aging, Kinetics of Polymer Aging, Multiphase Flow and Kinetics, Electronic Structure, Molecular Dynamics, and Hydration of Ions.

Selected Publications

• S.D. Chao, J.D. Kress and A. Redondo, “Coarse-grained Rigid Blob Model for Soft Matter Simulations”, J. Chem. Phys. 122 (23): 234912 (2005)
• A. Redondo, R. LeSar, "Modeling and simulation of biomaterials," Annual Review of Materials Research 34: 279-314 (2004)
• S.D. Chao, J.D. Kress, A. Redondo, "An alternative multipolar expansion for intermolecular potential functions," J. Chem. Phys. 120 (12): 5558-5565 (2004)
• B.L. Holian, M.R. Baer, D. Brenner, D.D. Dlott, A. Redondo, B.M. Rice. T. Sewell and C.A. Wight, “Molecular dynamics simultions of detonation phenomena”, International Technology Research Institute, Laurel, MD, reissued by Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003)
• J.R. Faeder, W.S. Hlavacek, I. Reischl, M.L. Blinov, H. Metzger, A. Redondo, C. Wofsy and B. Goldstein, “Investigation of early events in FcεTI-mediated signaling using a detailed mathematical Model”, Jour. Immunol. 170, 3769 (2003)
• M.L.T. Asaki, A. Redondo, T.A. Zawodzinski, et al., "Dielectric relaxation of electrolyte solutions using terahertz transmission spectroscopy," J. Chem. Phys. 116 (19): 8469-8482 (2002)
• M.L.T. Asaki, A. Redondo, T.A. Zawodzinski, A.J. Taylor, "Dielectric relaxation and underlying dynamics of acetonitrile and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium triflate mixtures using THz transmission spectroscopy," J. Chem. Phys. 116 (23): 10377-10385 (2002)
• W.S. Hlavacek, A. Redondo, H. Metzger, C. Wofsy, B. Goldstein, "Kinetic proofreading models for cell signaling predict ways to escape kinetic proofreading," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98 (13): 7295-7300 (2001)
• N.J. Henson, J. Eckert, P.J. Hay, and A. Redondo, "Adsorption of Ethane and Ethene in Na-Y Studied by Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Computation," Chemical Physics, 261, 111, (2000)
• S.B. Rempe, L.R. Pratt, G. Hummer, J.D. Kress, R.L. Martin, and A. Redondo, "The Hydration Number of Li+ in Liquid Water," Journal of American Chemical Society, 122, 966, (2000)
• C.W. Patterson, D. Hanson, A. Redondo, S.L. Scott, and N. Henson, "Conformational Analysis of the Crystal Structure for MDI/BDO Hard Segments of Polyurethane Elastomers," Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics, 37, 2303, (1999)
• R.T. Pack, D.E. Hanson, and A. Redondo, "Chemical Kinetics of Estane Aging in PBX," Proceedings of the 21st Aging, Compatibility, and Stockpile Stewardship Conference, Albuquerque, N.M., 1997
• S. Gottesfeld, Y.-T. Kim, and A. Redondo, Recent Applications of Ellipsometry and Spectroellipsometry in Electrochemical Systems, in "Physical Electrochemistry, Principles, Methods, and Applications," I. Rubenstein, ed. (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1995), p. 393
• N. J. Henson, A.K. Cheetham, A. Redondo, S.M. Levine, and J.M. Newsam, "Computer Simulations of Benzene in Faujasite-Type Zeolites," Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 84, 2059, (1994)
• B. Calef and A. Redondo, "Initial Stages of Electrophilic Substitution Studied with Quantum Molecular Dynamics," Chemical Physics Letters, 223, 1, (1994)

Professional Appointments

2002-Present		Adjunct Professor, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University
1994-Present		Group Leader, Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
1983-1994		Technical Staff Member, Electronics and Electrochemical Materials and Devices Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
1981-1983		Research Associate in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
1980-1981		Visiting Associate in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
1979-1980		Associate Professor of Physics, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
1977-1979		Assistant Professor of Physics, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Professional Preparation

California Institute of Technology		Applied Physics		Ph.D. 1977
California Institute of Technology		Applied Physics		M.Sc. 1972
Utah State University (magna cum laude)		Physics		B.Sc. 1971