Welcome to Shebual

Welcome to Shebual Sebastian Antony Selvan, our newest PhD student.

Lars Goerigk joins PCCP Editorial Board

Lars Goerigk has joined the Editorial Board of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) as an Associate Editor.

Welcome, Emily

Welcome to Emily Green who’d like to know what life as a computational chemist is like. She joined our group for her 6-week chemical research project in third year.

Welcome back, Erica

Welcome back, Erica Giudici. Erica did a third-year project with us and now she’s back for a joint computational-experimental Masters project with the experimental part done in Prof. Uta Wille’s group.

Welcome, Vaughan

Welcome back to Vaughan Riley. After doing his third-year research project with us last year, he rejoined the group today for his Masters. Glad to have you back.

Goodbye, Tobias

Goodbye to Tobias Loeff, who was a group member for 10 months as part of an exchange Masters program with the University of Edinburgh. His project was excellent and a paper will be written shortly. Congratulations on your Masters degree and all the best for your PhD in Oxford.

Welcome to Ariel and Egidio

Welcome to Ariel Jones and Egidio Viegas.

Ariel is our latest PhD student. Se completed her undergraduate studies and her Honours degree at The University of Queensland, the latter with a computational chemistry project in the group of A/Prof. Elizabeth Krenske.

Egidio joined as a MSc student. He did his undergraduate studies at Methodist University in North Caroline, USA, and will be primarily supervised by Dr Marcus Giansiracusa.

Welcome to Melbourne and good luck for your projects!

New article on selfinteraction error in DFT

Congratulations to PhD student Dale Lonsdale for publishing his latest article, which reveals how the selfinteraction error in DFT depends on geometry and the type of occupied orbital: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0129820

Welcome, Cooper

Welcome to Cooper Forster who joined us for six weeks as a third-year research student.

Dr Lars Goerigk promoted to Associate Professor

Dr Lars Goerigk has been promoted to Associate Professor, effective from 1 January 2023.