Members

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. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2023.

When not at work he enjoys running, hiking, and paddle boarding.

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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.

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Dong Xing

Dong obtained his BSc from the University of Reading, where he studied a novel Rhenium quinone complex with Prof. Frantisek Hartl in 2021. In 2022, he finished his MSc project, a computational study on a flavin-based enzymatic uracil monooxygenation, under the supervision of Prof. Sam Hay in Manchester. In April 2023 he joined the group as a PhD student.

Outside chemistry, he enjoys cooking, raising dogs and watching animation.

Project: Exploration of excited-state aromaticity for the development of new photoactive molecules.

Umatur Rehman

Umatur got her M.Phil degree from Government College University Faisalabad, where she studied the mechanism of selected Diels-Alder reactions by using DFT, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Asim Mansha. She joined the group as a PhD student in October 2023. She is motivated to learn computational chemistry and explore its applications in a range of fields for the betterment of humanity.

Project: Optimisation of luminescent Europium complexes used as biosensors.