Terry James Frankcombe

Dr Terry Frankcombe is an Associate Professor in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra. I currently lead a research group investigating a variety of phenomena within physical chemistry, with a focus on the influence of energetics/energy surfaces on dynamical properties. I also collaborate on investigations of dielectric materials, interpreting wave functions and interfacial properties of graphene. I completed my PhD in 2001 at the University of Queensland, having received a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a University Medal from the Australian National University in 1997. I undertook a series of postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Queensland (2002-2003), Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands, 2004-2006), Göteborgs Universitet (Sweden, 2007, as a Marie Curie Fellow) and the Australian National University (2008-2010), before being awarded an ARC Future Fellowship undertaken at ANU (2011-2014). I also held the position of Associate Director of the National Youth Science Forum (a non-research position) from December 2010 to March 2011. Having been appointed as a Senior Lecturer in what was then known as PEMS in 2015, I was appointed as Associate Professor at the renamed School of Science in 2019. My research group is a member group of the QDN - Quantum Dynamics Network and TCCM - Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling Erasmus Masters. Chemistry, quantum mechanics, hydrogen storage, atomic interactions, quantum chemistry, gas-surface modelling, crystalline materials modelling; Catalysis and Mechanisms of Reactions, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Quantum Chemistry, Condensed Matter Modelling and Density Functional Theory, Physical Chemistry of Materials, Numerical and Computational Mathematics not elsewhere classified; theoretical and computational chemical physics: Quantum dynamics method development, Gas-surface potential energy surfaces and modelling, Solid state colossal permittivity materials, Photosynthesis, Interstellar chemistry, Interpreting ab initio wave functions