Ariel Jones (PhD student)
Ariel Jones
PhD student
Melbourne Centre for Theoretical and Computational 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 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
Present: student member of Royal Australian Chemical Institute (MRACI)
Presentations
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