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Personal
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Barry Robert Smith |
| Date of Birth |
24th June 1972 |
| Marital status |
Single |
| Nationality |
British |
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Contact
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| Address for correspondance |
Whitegate Farm,
Creeting St. Mary,
Ipswich,
Suffolk, IP6 8PG,
ENGLAND. |
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| Current work address |
Departamento de Química Física,
Universitat de València,
Doctor Moliner 50,
46100 Burjassot,
Valencia,
SPAIN.
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| E-mail (work) |
Barry.Smith @ uv.es |
E-mail (other) |
BarryRSmith @ Hotmail.com |
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http://www.uv.es/~bsmith/ or, |
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http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/6013/ |
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| Education |
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| 1993 - 1998 |
PhD Chemistry, King's College London
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| 1990 - 1993
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BSc Chemistry and Mathematics, King's College London
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| 1985 - 1990 |
Stowmarket High School, Suffolk |
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| Qualifications |
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University:
PhD Chemistry - 'Direct dynamics with applications to photochemical reactivity', supervised by Prof M A Robb. Funded via a KCL Junior Research Studentship.
BSc Chemistry and Mathematics, 1st class honours. Grade 'A' in all 24 course units except one. Degree contained approximately equal number of chemistry and maths units.
Final year project: 'Dynamics of excited state reactivity: A 3-atom model study'
School:
'A' levels - Maths (A), Chemistry (A), Further Maths (B)
'AS' level - Pure Maths and Theoretical Mechanics (A)
'GCSE' - English language (A), English literature (C), Maths (A), Chemistry (A), Physics (A), Geography (B), Craft/Design (C).
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| Awards |
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Undergraduate:
1992 - 'Sambrooke Exhibition Prize' - awarded for examination results during first two years of BSc.
1993 - 'Alan Flower Memorial Prize' - awarded for joint-honours student with best final year examination performance in the fields of maths or physics.
1993 - 'Wellcome Prize' - awarded for best project talk given by a final year chemistry undergraduate.
1993 - Received commendation from Chairman of BSc College Board of Examiners for achieving degree results amoungst the top 1% of BSc graduates.
1993 - 'Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Prize' - awarded to top 2 students in maths-related degrees at KCL.
Postgraduate:
1995 - Winner of prize for best poster presentation at annual KCL Physical Sciences Poster Session.
1995 - Joint-winner of prize for best poster at annual KCL Chemistry Department Poster Session.
Other:
1990 - 1992 Three runner-up awards in the 'Daily Telegraph Young Science Writers of the Year' competition.
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Employment
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| 1998 to present |
Researcher at the University of València, Spain, working as part of a research network called QUCEX -- 'quantum chemistry for the excited state'. This is funded by the European commission scheme 'Training and mobility of researchers' (TMR).
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| Publications |
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MA Robb, MJ Bearpark, BR Smith
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 1997, Vol.214, p.173.
M Garavelli, P Celani, M Fato, MJ Bearpark, BR Smith, M Olivucci, MA Robb
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, 1997, Vol.101, No.11, pp.2023-2032.
M Garavelli, P Celani, M Fato, MJ Bearpark, BR Smith, M Olivucci, MA Robb
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, 1997, Vol.101, No.11, pp.2023-2032.
S Clifford, MJ Bearpark, F Bernardi, M Olivucci, MA Robb, BR Smith
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 1996, Vol.118, No.31, pp.7353-7360.
MJ Bearpark, F Bernardi, M Olivucci, MA Robb, BR Smith
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 1996, Vol.118, No.22, pp.5254-5260.
MJ Bearpark, F Bernardi, S Clifford, M Olivucci, MA Robb, BR Smith, T Vreven
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 1996, Vol.118, No.1, pp.169-175.
BR Smith, MJ Bearpark, MA Robb, F Bernardi, M Olivucci
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, 1995, Vol.242, No.1-2, pp.27-32.
(also, two papers in print)
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Other
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Whilst I was a postgraduate student at KCL I held regular tutorials in physical chemistry for 1st year undergraduates. I also performed regular demonstrating work for experimental and theoretical undergraduate chemistry courses, and have written software which is used for teaching molecular dynamics to 2nd year undergraduates.
At the end of the 1st year of my PhD, I presented a poster at the 'Modelling Photochemical Reactivity' ESF conference in Spain.
During the 2nd year of my PhD I spent a month at the University of Bologna (Italy), working with the theoretical chemistry group.
At King's College I presented a number of seminars and research colloquia, including a talk at a Royal Society of Chemistry meeting during my final year.
I have atteneded many scientific meetings and conferences, including recently (March 1998) a TMR review meeting in Belgium. I presented two talks about my work; one at a very general level for the EC representatives, and one at a more scientific level for the other QUCEX members.
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Other
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Good knowledge of Unix and Fortran77. Wide range of computing skills (Macintosh, PC etc).
Clean driving licence.
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| Interests |
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Avid player of tennis and squash.
Interests in many areas of computing, including HTML and graphics.
Cinema.
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| References |
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Addresses available on request.
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