Shebual Sebastian Antony Selvan

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: ssebastianan AT student.unimelb.edu.au

 

Biography

09/2023 – present: PhD student, Goerigk group, University of Melbourne, Australia.

01/2023-05/May: Assistant professor of Chemistry, MAASC institution, Uthiramerur, India.

2018-2020: Master of Chemical Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

2015-2018: Bachelor of Science-Chemistry, Loyola College, Chennai, India.

 

Awards

2023: Melbourne Research Scholarship for PhD

2018: La Trobe Excellence Scholarship for meritorious academic performance in Bachelors

2016: Loyola Research Park – Undergraduate Project Grant for project title “Phytochemical and Pharmacological investigation of Cymbopogan citratus”

 

Publications

1. S. Sebastian, V. Riley, B. Wanniarachchi, C. Ritchie, L. Goerigk, “Spin-scaled double hybrids with long-range correction solve the TD-DFT overestimation problem in BODIPY dyes: benchmarking and experimental validation”, RSC Advances 2025, in print, see preprint: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/684937743ba0887c33849d2a

 

Presentations

1. 12/2022 – Poster: “Computational studies on electronic structure of remote N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (r-NHCs)”, GTSD conference, Presidency College, Chennai, India.