Chemical Dynamics Award 2009 winner
University of Oxford
Awarded for his novel contributions to the theory of reactive collisions and the quantum simulations of condensed phases.
About the winner
David Manolopoulos was born in Gillingham, Kent, on the 14th December 1961. He obtained a first class undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1984 and stayed on in Cambridge to do a PhD in theoretical chemistry under the supervision of David Clary.
After two further years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas in Austin he secured his first job as a lecturer in physical and theoretical chemistry at the University of Nottingham in 1990.
He moved to Oxford as a lecturer in physical and theoretical chemistry and a tutorial fellow of St Edmund Hall in 1995 and was promoted to a professorship of theoretical chemistry in 2005.
His research interests range from using exact quantum reactive scattering techniques to help explain the results of modern gas phase reaction dynamics experiments to developing new methods for including quantum mechanical zero point energy and tunnelling effects in simulations of condensed phase reactions.
Related Links
David Manolopoulos's webpage
Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford
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