Professor Amir Karton

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Professor (School of Science and Technology)
The University of New England
Armidale, NSW, Australia

Expertise

Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Molecular Design, Supercomputers, Chemical Reactions, Free Radicals, Antioxidants, Graphene

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Previous media experience

I was the main/only contact on a number of press releases published by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), and The University of Western Australia (UWA). I have written popular science articles on graphene for the Australian Resources and Investment magazine. I have given public talks at UWA, RACI, and ARC on various topics, including computational chemistry and molecular design.

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Biography

Professor Amir Karton leads the quantum chemistry lab at the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England. Prof. Karton’s lab designs functional molecules and materials for catalysis and sustainable energy technologies using high-level quantum chemical simulations. The significance of this research has been recognized by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Citation Award (2021), the American Chemical Society (ACS) PHYS Division Lectureship Award (2020), the RACI Physical Chemistry Lectureship (2019), and the Le Fèvre Medal from the Australian Academy of Science (2018). Amir is an Editor of Chemical Physics Letters and Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry.

Personal info

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Gender:
Male
Languages besides English:
Hebrew
ResearcherID/ORCID iD:
B-7628-2008
Last updated: 02 Aug 2023