Group Leader
Dr Felix Plasser
Felix completed his PhD in 2012 in Vienna with Prof. Hans Lischka. Subsequently, he spent two years in Heidelberg with Prof. Andreas Dreuw. He returned to Vienna in 2015 for his second postdoc with Prof. Leticia González. In 2018 he was appointed as Lecturer in Physical and Computational Chemistry at Loughborough University.
When not at work he enjoys running and paddle boarding.
Staff page – ORCID – WoS – Google Scholar
Postdocs
Dr Patrick Kimber
Patrick joined the group as a PhD student in October 2019, studying how novel computational approaches can aid our understanding of molecular excited states beyond the frontier molecular orbital picture. Following the completion of his PhD in November 2022, he accepted a postdoctoral position in the group to work on the modelling of energetic materials.
Outside computational chemistry, Patrick enjoys playing tennis and darts, and supports Liverpool FC.
Project Students
James Turner
James’ project is related to EPSRC grant EP/V048686/1. He is using computations to determine the plausibility of a double electron transfer from a photosensitizer to a series of macrocycles. These complexes will be used as photo-redox catalysts for the splitting of water and hydrogen production, if suitable.
Project: Computational optimisation of photo-redox catalyst based on globally aromatic macrocycles.
Hugh Powell
Project: In-silico design of luminescent molecules.
Previous Members
Josiah Riley MChem
Project: Computational Analysis of Pd-catalysed reactions.
Luke Russell MChem
Project: Computational Optimisation of Antenna Triplet State Energy for lanthanide probes.
Issie Watt MChem
Project: Detailed insight into excited-state electronic wavefunctions.
Tianhui Yu MSc
Project: Computational Investigation of Aromaticity in Macrocycles.
Dylan Morgan MChem
Project: Visualisation of aromaticity in macrocycles.
View his computer code on github
Hamid Matari MSc
Project: Computational modelling of the synthesis of the antibiotic basidalin.
Xinyi Wang MSc
Project: Modelling of anion binding to Europium complexes.
Kathryn M. Stell MChem
Project: Computational investigation of the electronic structure of aggregation induced emitters.
Lewis E. Freeman MChem
Project: Photodynamics simulations of nucleobase analogues.
Rhys Francis MSc
Joint Masters’ supervision with Dr. Stephen Butler
Previous Mentees
Dr Maximillian F. S. J. Menger
Supervisors: Prof. B. Mennucci (Pisa), Prof. L. González (Vienna)
Dr Stefanie A. Mewes
Supervisor: Prof. A. Dreuw (Heidelberg)