Dr Damien Thompson
Dr Damien Thompson
Lecturer
Contact: damien.thompson@ul.ie
PROCESS Research Theme: Bulk Solids Processing
Research Interests:
- Computer-aided materials design
- Design of thermally stable protein formulations
- Design of non-biofouling surfaces
- Design of excipient formulations
- High-performance computing
- Molecular dynamics simulations
- Electronic structure calculations
Short Bio
Dr Thompson’s group design novel architectures and assemblies based on the directed self-assembly of nanoscale building blocks (small molecules, biomolecules, monolayers, and nanoparticles) in collaboration with leading experimental and industry partners in European Framework, Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland funded projects. Thermodynamic modelling of assemblies from the atomic to micron scale is performed using workstations at the Bernal Institute UL, the Irish Centre for High End Computing and supercomputing centers throughout mainland Europe. He has graduated four PhD students and supervised eight postdoctoral researchers, and currently supervises three PhD students and three postdoctoral researchers.
Publications:
Qualifications:
- 2003: PhD in Computational Chemistry at University of Limerick (Supervisor: Prof Kieran Hodnett)
