Alex Brown, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Science - Chemistry
Chair, Faculty of Science - Chemistry

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Science - Chemistry
Email
ab16@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-1854
Address
W4-70D Chemistry Centre - West
11227 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2G2

Chair, Faculty of Science - Chemistry
Email
ab16@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-3249
Address
E3-38B Chemistry Centre - East
11227 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 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