Contact
Professor, Faculty of Science - Chemistry
- ab16@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-1854
- Address
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W4-70D Chemistry Centre - West
11227 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2G2
Chair, Faculty of Science - Chemistry
- ab16@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-3249
- Address
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E3-38B Chemistry Centre - East
11227 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2G2
Overview
About
Education
PhD (Chemistry), University of Western Ontario 1997
BSc (Chemical Physics), University of Waterloo 1992
Awards
Teacher of The Year Award, Chemistry Students' Society 2014-2015
Faculty of Science, Teaching Honor Roll, Lifetime Member 2014
Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching 2013
Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Alberta 2012
Graduate Student Association, Graduate Student Supervisor Award 2012
Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award 2007-2009
Award for Teaching Excellence from the Chemistry Students' Association 2006-2007
Award for Teaching Excellence from the Chemistry Students' Association 2003-2004
Research
- Theoretical/computational studies of molecular photochemistry and laser control
- Computational design of small-molecule biofluorophores
- Photochemistry and photophysics of fluorescent proteins and their chromophores
- Understanding of novel bonding and structure in inorganic materials (collaboration with E. Rivard)
- Molecular quantum dynamics (using MCTDH)
- Optimal control theory for laser control
Teaching
2019-2020
CHEM 681/405: Quantum Mechanics for Chemistry (Winter)
Previous Courses Taught
CHEM 371: Energetics of Chemical Reactions
CHEM 282: Atomic and Molecular Structure
CHEM 102/105: Introductory Chemistry II
Featured Publications
S.M. Parke, E. Hupf, G.K. Matharu, I. de Aguiar, L. Xu, H. Yu, M.P. Boone, G. L. C. de Souza, R. McDonald, M.J. Ferguson, G. He, A. Brown, E. Rivard
Angew. Chimie Int. Ed. 57 (45):14841-14846
M.R. Momeni and Alex Brown
J. Chem. Theory Compute.. 11 (6):2619-2632
Y. Simsek and A. Brown
J. Phys. Chem. B. 122 (22):5738-5748
E. Pradhan and A. Brown
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.. 19
M. Rossano-Tapia and A. Brown
J. Chem. Theory. Comput.. 15 (5):3153-3161