David Henry

Biography

David Henry obtained my PhD in Chemistry from Deakin University investigating chiral organotin hydrides for radical chemistry, using both experimental and theoretical methods. Following his PhD he took up a post-doctoral position at ANU with Professor Leo Radom to develop high-level theoretical methods to accurately describe radical reaction mechanisms. He then accepted a post-doctoral position with Professor Irene Yarovsky at RMIT University to design nano-scale clean coatings using force-field based theoretical methods. He was subsequently appointed a Research Fellow at RMIT and investigated the chemistry of aluminium nano-particles, with a particular focus on hydrogen storage applications. I then moved to Murdoch to take up a lecturing position and establish a Physical / Computational Chemistry research group.

Research Interest

Physical Chemistry, Materials simulation and Computational Chemistry and involves applying an extensive range of methodologies including electronic first principles and forcefield / classical methods to chemical, biological and materials related problems.