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Nicholas Besley

Associate Professor in Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Science

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Biography

Dr Nick Besley gained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Physics at the University of Sussex in 1994. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Professor Peter Knowles, for the study of Coupled Cluster Theory. He spent the following two years as a postdoctoral research associate at The Scripps Research Institute in the United States with Dr. Jonathan Hirst. He returned to the UK in 1999 to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham with Professor Peter Gill. Dr. Besley was appointed to a temporary lectureship at the University of Nottingham in January 2001 and was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship for the period 2002-2007. In 2005 he was appointed to a Lecturership in Theoretical Chemistry. In 2007, he was awarded the Silver Jubilee Prize by the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society and was a Visiting Academic Research Fellow at the Australian National University. In 2012 he was promoted to his current position of Associate Professor in Theoretical Chemistry.

Research Summary

Development of new methods in quantum chemistry; Modelling of excited states; Vibrational spectroscopy beyond the harmonic approximation; Solvent effects on electronic structure;Spectroscopy of… read more

Recent Publications

  • HANSON-HEINE, MAGNUS W. D., HUSSEINI, FOUAD S., HIRST, JONATHAN D. and BESLEY, NICHOLAS A., 2016. Simulation of Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Peptides Using Localized Normal Modes JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION. 12(4), 1905-1918
  • SHAO, YIHAN, GAN, ZHENGTING, EPIFANOVSKY, EVGENY, GILBERT, ANDREW T. B., WORMIT, MICHAEL, KUSSMANN, JOERG, LANGE, ADRIAN W., BEHN, ANDREW, DENG, JIA, FENG, XINTIAN, GHOSH, DEBASHREE, GOLDEY, MATTHEW, HORN, PAUL R., JACOBSON, LEIF D., KALIMAN, ILYA, KHALIULLIN, RUSTAM Z., KUS, TOMASZ, LANDAU, ARIE, LIU, JIE, PROYNOV, EMIL I., RHEE, YOUNG MIN, RICHARD, RYAN M., ROHRDANZ, MARY A., STEELE, RYAN P., SUNDSTROM, ERIC J., WOODCOCK, H. LEE, III, ZIMMERMAN, PAUL M., ZUEV, DMITRY, ALBRECHT, BEN, ALGUIRE, ETHAN, AUSTIN, BRIAN, BERAN, GREGORY J. O., BERNARD, YVES A., BERQUIST, ERIC, BRANDHORST, KAI, BRAVAYA, KSENIA B., BROWN, SHAWN T., CASANOVA, DAVID, CHANG, CHUN-MIN, CHEN, YUNQING, CHIEN, SIU HUNG, CLOSSER, KRISTINA D., CRITTENDEN, DEBORAH L., DIEDENHOFEN, MICHAEL, DISTASIO, ROBERT A., JR., DO, HAINAM, DUTOI, ANTHONY D., EDGAR, RICHARD G., FATEHI, SHERVIN, FUSTI-MOLNAR, LASZLO, GHYSELS, AN, GOLUBEVA-ZADOROZHNAYA, ANNA, GOMES, JOSEPH, HANSON-HEINE, MAGNUS W. D., HARBACH, PHILIPP H. P., HAUSER, ANDREAS W., HOHENSTEIN, EDWARD G., HOLDEN, ZACHARY C., JAGAU, THOMAS-C., JI, HYUNJUN, KADUK, BENJAMIN, KHISTYAEV, KIRILL, KIM, JAEHOON, KIM, JIHAN, KING, ROLLIN A., KLUNZINGER, PHIL, KOSENKOV, DMYTRO, KOWALCZYK, TIM, KRAUTER, CAROLINE M., LAO, KA UN, LAURENT, ADELE D., LAWLER, KEITH V., LEVCHENKO, SERGEY V., LIN, CHING YEH, LIU, FENGLAI, LIVSHITS, ESTER, LOCHAN, ROHINI C., LUENSER, ARNE, MANOHAR, PRASHANT, MANZER, SAMUEL F., MAO, SHAN-PING, MARDIROSSIAN, NARBE, MARENICH, ALEKSANDR V., MAURER, SIMON A., MAYHALL, NICHOLAS J., NEUSCAMMAN, ERIC, OANA, C. MELANIA, OLIVARES-AMAYA, ROBERTO, O'NEILL, DARRAGH P., PARKHILL, JOHN A., PERRINE, TRILISA M., PEVERATI, ROBERTO, PROCIUK, ALEXANDER, REHN, DIRK R., ROSTA, EDINA, RUSS, NICHOLAS J., SHARADA, SHAAMA M., SHARMA, SANDEEP, SMALL, DAVID W., SODT, ALEXANDER, STEIN, TAMAR, STUECK, DAVID, SU, YU-CHUAN, THOM, ALEX J. W., TSUCHIMOCHI, TAKASHI, VANOVSCHI, VITALII, VOGT, LESLIE, VYDROV, OLEG, WANG, TAO, WATSON, MARK A., WENZEL, JAN, WHITE, ALEC, WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER F., YANG, JUN, YEGANEH, SINA, YOST, SHANE R., YOU, ZHI-QIANG, ZHANG, IGOR YING, ZHANG, XING, ZHAO, YAN, BROOKS, BERNARD R., CHAN, GARNET K. L., CHIPMAN, DANIEL M., CRAMER, CHRISTOPHER J., GODDARD, WILLIAM A., III, GORDON, MARK S., HEHRE, WARREN J., KLAMT, ANDREAS, SCHAEFER, HENRY F., III, SCHMIDT, MICHAEL W., SHERRILL, C. DAVID, TRUHLAR, DONALD G., WARSHEL, ARIEH, XU, XIN, ASPURU-GUZIK, ALAN, BAER, ROI, BELL, ALEXIS T., BESLEY, NICHOLAS A., CHAI, JENG-DA, DREUW, ANDREAS, DUNIETZ, BARRY D., FURLANI, THOMAS R., GWALTNEY, STEVEN R., HSU, CHAO-PING, JUNG, YOUSUNG, KONG, JING, LAMBRECHT, DANIEL S., LIANG, WANZHEN, OCHSENFELD, CHRISTIAN, RASSOLOV, VITALY A., SLIPCHENKO, LYUDMILA V., SUBOTNIK, JOSEPH E., VAN VOORHIS, TROY, HERBERT, JOHN M., KRYLOV, ANNA I., GILL, PETER M. W. and HEAD-GORDON, MARTIN, 2015. Advances in molecular quantum chemistry contained in the Q-Chem 4 program package MOLECULAR PHYSICS. 113(2), 184-215
  • ERSHOVA, OLGA V., KLOS, JACEK, BESLEY, NICHOLAS A. and WRIGHT, TIMOTHY G., 2015. Interaction of the NO 3p pi (C-2 Pi) Rydberg state with RG (RG = Ne, Kr, and Xe): Potential energy surfaces and spectroscopy JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS. 142(3), 034311

Current Research

Development of new methods in quantum chemistry; Modelling of excited states; Vibrational spectroscopy beyond the harmonic approximation; Solvent effects on electronic structure;Spectroscopy of nanotubes and proteins; Spectroscopy of molecules on surfaces

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