Dr David Tew

Research summary

Accurate potential energy surfaces and reaction dynamics 

Molecules are not static objects. They are continuously in motion, vibrating and sometimes reacting from one chemical species to another. A knowledge of how the energy changes as the nuclei move (i.e. the potential energy surface) is crucial to the understanding the chemistry of these dynamical processes. If we are able to compute the potential energy surface, we can then simulate the vibrational motion of the nuclei, determine reaction pathways and predict reaction rates. In my group we develop and apply accurate and efficient methods for computing potential energy surfaces and simulating ...

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Biography

Past positions:

• DFG funded Principal Investigator 2007-2009 
  Universität Karlsruhe, De
• Marie Curie Fellow 2005-2007
  Universität Karlsruhe, De
• Post Doc 2003-2004 
  Unversity of Cambridge, UK

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Recent publications

• Riaz, S, Stephens, S, Mizukami, W, Tew, DP, Walker, NR & Legon, AC 2012, ‘H2S center dot center dot center dot Ag-I synthesized by a laser-ablation method and identified by its rotational spectrum’. Chemical Physics Letters.
• Stephens, S, Mizukami, W, Tew, DP, Walker, NR & Legon, AC 2012, ‘Molecular geometry of OC center dot center dot center dot AgI determined by broadband rotational spectroscopy and ab initio calculations’. Journal of Chemical Physics.

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