Highlights
- Congratulations to Prof. Maxim Fedorov, who has been awarded the Helmholtz Award for 2012 from the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS). Prof. Fedorov will present the Helmholtz lecture at the IAPWS annual meeting taking place in Boulder, Colorado, from 30th September to 5th October, 2012.
- The West of Scotland Supercomputing Centre – ARCHIE-west – has now been installed in the University of Strathclyde. Prof. Maxim Fedorov is director of the new centre.
- David Palmer has been awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship to carry out research in the group.
- Congratulations to Andrey Frolov for being awarded a poster prize at the 242nd ACS National Meeting 2011 in Denver, Colorodo.
- Congratulations to Andrey Frolov for being awarded magna cum laude for his PhD thesis “Ion Interactions with Carbon Nanomaterial Surfaces in Aqueous and Non-aqueous Solutions”. Our very best wishes for continuing success in the coming years!
- Ekaterina Ratkova has been awarded summa cum laude for her PhD thesis “Computational Prediction of Thermodynamic Properties of Organic Molecules in Aqueous Solutions”. Congratulations and best wishes for a bright future in science!
- The article D.S. Palmer and M.V. Fedorov “Computational Drug Discovery – Hydration Behavior of De Novo Designed Pharmaceuticals” has been published in the online portal of G.I.T. Laboratory Journal, (2011, 1-2, 28-30).
- The article “Towards a universal method to calculate hydration free energies: a 3D reference interaction site model with partial molar volume correction” D.S. Palmer, A.I. Frolov, E.L. Ratkova and M.V. Fedorov has been chosen for inclusion in IOP Select reflecting substantial advances or significant breakthroughs in the area of Physics of Condensed Matter.
- Our paper M.V. Fedorov and A.A. Kornyshev, Towards understanding the structure and capacitance of electrical double layer in ionic liquids, Electrochimica Acta, (2008), 53 , 6835-6840 is in the Top 5 of most cited papers of 2008 in Electrochimica Acta.
- Prof Fedorov has received an Invited Professor Award to visit the University of Lille, France
- Our paper D.S. Palmer, V.P. Sergiievskyi, F. Jensen and M.V. Fedorov, Accurate calculations of the hydration free energies of drug-like molecules using the reference interaction site model, Journal of Chemical Physics, (2010), 133, 044104 has been highlighted by the American Institute of Physics in an online press-release “Where do the drugs go?” also highlighted by ScienceDaily
- Ekaterina Ratkova has been awarded the second poster price for “Accurate Hydration Thermodynamics Prediction for Organic Molecules by the 1D RISM-SDC Approach” at conference “European Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry Material Science” in Bressanone, Italy, 30.01 – 04.02.2011. Congratulations!
- Max-Planck Press-Release: Mathematiker entwickeln ein neues Modell zur Verbreitung bioaktiver Substanzen in Lebewesen
- International Scientific Visitor Award to visit the Institute for Protein Research, University of Osaka in Osaka
- The effect of sodium chloride on poly-L-glutamate conformation (Chem. Commun. 8, 896) makes the front cover of Chemical Communications and was discussed in Chemical and Engineering News (C&E December 2008, 15th edition, p29)
