Dr Lindsey J. Munro
Head of Department of Natural Sciences
My profile
Biography
Membership of professional associations
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- American Chemical Society
Teaching
Why do I teach?
It’s a huge privilege to be able to inspire the next generation of scientists. I enjoy challenging the students and helping guide them to understand complex concepts and solve problems. Tackling these topics enables them to build confidence and resilience through their hard work.
How I’ll teach you
I teach through a mixture of:
- Topic Summaries
- Notes from Lectures
- Worked Examples
- Tutorial Questions
- Practice Workshops
- Modelling labs related to the theory taught
It requires lots of hard work … by both the students & me!
Why study…
Theoretical chemistry is a challenging subject that requires you to be able to analyse problems, identify the key questions and apply a wide range of techniques to produce solutions. It’s a mixture of core chemical principles and lots of mathematics to develop models that can be applied to lots of real world applications. Thus, it is possible to study:
- Thermodynamics
- Kinetics
- Reaction Mechanisms
- Molecular Simluations
- Protein-ligand Interactions
- Drug Design
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Computational calculations enable you to analyse a large number of systems, provide an understanding of processes at an electronic level & guidance to experimentalists as to where they should focus their efforts.
The complexity and variety of the subject make it compelling - never boring.
Subject areas
Theoretical Chemistry
Research outputs
My research extends from the development of computational optimisation algorithms and inter-atomic potentials to probing real-life applications using a range of computational levels of theory and techniques.
Areas of interest include:
- Aroma chemistry
- Antioxidant properties of flavonoids
- The role of odorant binding proteins in olfaction
- Materials modelling
- Interaction of atoms, molecules and clusters with surfaces.
- Effect of defects, impurities & functional groups on surface interactions. - Solvent effects, ranging from continuum to hybrid to explicit solvent models.
- Development of accurate intermolecular and atom-bulk potentials.
- Synthesis and electronic properties of self-assembling nanodevices
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
MONK, P. MATEMATICA PARA QUIMICA UMA CAIXA DE FERRAMENTAS DE CALCULO.
Monk, P., Munro, L.J. (2010) Maths for Chemistry. OUP Oxford.
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Journal articles
Robertson, T.B.R., Antonides, L.H., Gilbert, N., Benjamin, S.L., Langley, S.K., Munro, L.J., Sutcliffe, O.B., Mewis, R.E. (2019) 'Hyperpolarization of Pyridyl Fentalogues by Signal Amplification By Reversible Exchange (SABRE).' ChemistryOpen, 8pp. 1-9.
Liauw, C.M., Taylor, R.L., Munro, L.J., Wilkinson, A.N., Cheerarot, O. (2014) 'Effect of triclosan on self-assembly of alkyl ammonium surfactants adsorbed within montmorillonite galleries in silicone elastomer composites.' Macromolecular Symposia, 338(1) pp. 45-53.
Bingley, G.D., Verran, J., Munro, L.J., Banks, C.E. (2012) 'Identification of microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOCs) emitted from fungal isolates found on cinematographic film.' Analytical Methods, 4(5) pp. 1265-1271.
Brownson, D.A.C., Munro, L.J., Kampouris, D.K., Banks, C.E. (2011) 'Electrochemistry of graphene: Not such a beneficial electrode material?.' RSC Advances, 1(6) pp. 978-988.
Munro, L.J., Curioni, A., Andreoni, W., Yeretzian, C., Watzke, H. (2003) 'The elusiveness of coffee aroma: New insights from a non-empirical approach.' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 51(10) pp. 3092-3096.
Munro, L.J., Tharrington, A., Jordan, K.D. (2002) 'Global optimization and finite temperature simulations of atomic clusters: Use of Xe
n Arm clusters as test systems.' Computer Physics Communications, 145(1) pp. 1-23.Munro, L., Johnson, J.K., Jordan, K.D. (2001) 'An interatomic potential for mercury dimer.' The journal of chemical physics, 114(13) pp. 5545-5551.
Kumeda, Y., Munro, L., Wales, D.J. (2001) 'Transition states and rearrangement mechanisms from hybrid eigenvector-following and density functional theory. Application to C10H10 and defect migration in crystalline silicon.' Chemical Physics Letters, 341(1-2) pp. 185-194.
Munro, L.J., Wales, D.J. (1999) 'Defect migration in crystalline silicon.' Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 59(6) pp. 3969-3980.
Munro, L.J., Wales, D.J. (1997) 'Rearrangements of bulk face-centred-cubic nickel modelled by a Sutton-Chen potential.' Faraday Discussions, 106pp. 409-423.
Wales, D.J., Munro, L.J. (1996) 'Changes of morphology and capping of model transition metal clusters.' Journal of Physical Chemistry, 100(6) pp. 2053-2061.
Wales, D.J., Munro, L.J., Doye, J.P.K. (1996) 'What can calculations employing empirical potentials teach us about bare transition-metal clusters?.' Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions, (5) pp. 611-623.
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Conference papers
Munro, L., Coulthwaite, L., Marshall, J., Saunders, F. (2020) 'Transforming student aspirations: Embedding 5 year plans in the curriculum.' In Advance HE STEM Conference 2020. The Studio, Manchester, 29/1/2020 - 30/1/2020.
Simbanegavi, N., Birkett, P., Tosheva, L., Banks, C., Munro, L.J. (2014) 'Designing self-assembling nanomolecules: An integrated computational and experimental approach.' In 248th National Meeting of the American-Chemical-Society (ACS). 248. San Francisco, CA, 10/8/2014 - 14/8/2014. AMER CHEMICAL SOC,