Ariel Jones

PhD student

Melbourne Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

School of Chemistry

The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010

Australia

Room: 172 (Masson Building)

E-mail: jonesac AT student.unimelb.edu.au

 

Biography

2023 – present: PhD student, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Australia

2019 – 2022: Bachelor of Science (Honours), School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Australia

 

Awards

2024: Best design award, 2024 Graduate Research Conference, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Australia

2024: 2nd place long talk award , 2024 Graduate Research Conference, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Australia

2024: TW Healy Award 2024, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne

2024: Runner up, 2024 Encouragement Award by ATA Scientific Instruments

2024: Best talk, AMSI 2024 Summer School, Canberra, Australia

2023: Best talk as voted by academics, 2023 RACI Physical Chemistry Division Student Conference, Katoomba, Australia

2023: Best talk as voted by students, 2023 RACI Physical Chemistry Division Student Conference, Katoomba, Australia

2023: Nominated for Future Superstars award – Honours, The University of Queensland, Australia

2023: Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, The University of Melbourne, Australia

2022: SciArt competition winner, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Australia

2021-2022: Summer research scholarship, The University of Queensland, Australia

2021: UQ Rowe Scientific Chemistry Award: Third-Year Laboratory Prize, The University of Queensland, Australia

2020&2021: Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence Semester 1, The University of Queensland, Australia

 

Professional Memberships and Academic Service

1.  A. C. Jones, L. Goerigk, “Exploring non-covalent interactions in excited states: beyond aromatic excimer models”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2024, 26, 25192-25207. DOI: 10.1002/jcc.27351 (PCCP 25th anniversary special issue)

Presentations

7. 08/2024 – Talk:“Assessing time-dependent DFT for non-covalent interactions in excited complexes”, DFT24, Paris, France

6. 07/2024 – Talk:“Assessing Time-dependent DFT for non-covalent interactions in excited complexes”, RACI Phys Chem 2024, Sydney, Australia

5. 01/2024 – Talk: “Assessing computational chemistry: do current methods account for excited-state non-covalent interactions?” AMSI 2024 Summer School, Canberra, Australia

4. 09/2023 – Talk: “Assessing density functional theory for modelling non-covalent interactions in excited state complexes“, 2023 RACI Physical Chemistry Division Student Conference, Katoomba, Australia

3. 11/2022 – Talk: “Are ultrafast rebound rates explained by radical clock (mis)-calibration?”, Queensland Annual Chemistry Symposium, Brisbane, Australia

2. 09/2022 – Talk: “Are inconsistent experimental reaction rates explained by a radical clock (mis)-calibration? A computational study of the trans-(2-phenylcyclopropyl)carbinyl radical clock”, Australasian Conference for Undergraduate Research, Sydney, Australia

1. 05/2022 – Poster: “Quantum mechanics investigation of 1,4- and 1,2-addition mechanisms”, UQ Summer Research Poster Presentation, Brisbane, Australia