Our People » Damien Thompson
Office: AD3-022,
Analog Devices Building,
University of Limerick.
+353 61 237734
damien.thompson@ul.ie
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry at University of Limerick
Research and Teaching Interests
- Rational design of materials for energy-efficient electronics, medical devices and clean energy
- High-performance computing
- Molecular dynamics simulations
- Electronic structure calculations
- Proteomics, transcriptomics, pathway analysis
- Microscopy, especially high throughput imaging and confocal microscopy
Damien Thompson
2013-present: Lecturer in Physics, University of Limerick, Ireland
2005-2013: Scientist in the Theory Modelling and Design Center at Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
2003-2005: Postdoctoral fellow in Computational Biophysics at Ecole Polytechnique (Advisor: Prof Thomas Simonson)
1999-2003: PhD in Computational Chemistry at University of Limerick (Supervisor: Prof Kieran Hodnett)
Additional Links
The role of van der Waals forces in the performance of molecular diodes
N Nerngchamnong, L Yuan, DC Qi, J Li, D Thompson, CA Nijhuis
Nature nanotechnology 8 (2), 113
Gradient-driven motion of multivalent ligand molecules along a surface functionalized with multiple receptors
A Perl, A Gomez-Casado, D Thompson, HH Dam, P Jonkheijm, …
Nature chemistry 3 (4), 317
Controlling the direction of rectification in a molecular diode
L Yuan, N Nerngchamnong, L Cao, H Hamoudi, E Del Barco, M Roemer, …
Nature communications 6, 6324