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Prof Graham Worth
Room 340, Christopher Ingold Building
London
Appointment
- Professor of Computational Chemistry
- Dept of Chemistry
- Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences
Biography
Graham Worth is Professor of Physical Chemistry. His group currently
consists of 2 postdocs, 3 PhD students and 2 MRes students. Research in
theoretical chemistry within his group focuses on the development of a
quantum dynamics computer program to simulate fundamental molecular
reactivity, with a particular interest in photo-excited reactions and
non-adiabatic effects. He moved to UCL in 2016. Before this, he worked
at the University of Birmingham from 2005 -2016 (research fellow, senior
lecturer, professor) and at King's College London 2000 – 2005 (research
fellow, lecturer). Prior to that he was a Marie-Curie Fellow then a
Research Assistant at the University of Heidelberg in the group of Prof.
Lenz Cederbaum (1992 – 2000), and a Research Fellow at the EMBL,
Heidelberg in the group of Prof. Rebecca Wade (1992). He did his DPhil
in the group of Prof. Graham Richards at the University of Oxford.
Research Summary
Research in our group has 2 strands. The first is the development of
algorithms for quantum dynamics simulations based around the Quantics
software package. This aims to be a general purpose computer program
able to simulate fundamental molecular reactivity including all quantum
effects. The program incorporates a number of quantum dynamics methods,
with the main one being the efficient multi-configurational
time-dependent Hartree algorithm. It also includes our direct dynamics
vMCG method. The second strand of our research is to use quantum
dynamics and quantum chemistry calculations to understand what happens
to a molecular after it absorbs a photon of light energy. Mapping out
the possible pathways and seeing how they are governed by molecular
properties, and the environment, will allow us to engineer molecules
with particular photo-active properties. A special role in
photochemistry is played by what are known as non-adiabatic effects, in
which the nuclear and electronic motion is coupled and result in the
fast change in molecular character.
Teaching Summary
Chem0007 Physics for Chemists
Chem0050 Advance Quantum Mechanics