Selected (invited) talks
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1998:
Talk 1 Formation of Zirconocene Cations and Dications
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, UK, 1998Talk 2 Formation of Zwitterionic-Cationic Halfsandwich Zirconium Complexes
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Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, UK, 1998
2005:
Talk 3 Polymers for (Opto)electronic applications
7th Austrian Polymer Meeting, Graz, Austria, 2005Talk 4 NMR and Computational Studies of phenylsilyl substituted cationic and dicationic Zirconocene Compounds
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University of Bonn, Germany, 2005
2006:
Talk 5 Models for Solvent Adducts in Ziegler Polymerisation
Frühjahrssymposium Konstanz, Germany, 2006
slidesTalk 6 NMR and DFT investigations of cationic zirconocene benzyl compounds
8th Austrian Polymer Meeting 2006, Linz, Austria, 2006Talk 7 NMR und DFT Untersuchungen von phenyl substituierten Zirkonocene Verbindungen
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Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2006
2007:
Talk 8 NMR and DFT investigations of aryl substituted group IV metallocenes
University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2007Talk 9 Recent results of arylstabilised cationic group IV metallocenes
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University of Oxford, UK, 2007
2008:
Talk 10 DFT and NMR Investigation of Cationic Zirconocene Compounds with appended Phenyl-Group
'Organometallics at the Centre', Cancun, Mexiko, 2008Talk 11 NMR and DFT Investigations of cationic group 4 metallocene compounds with appened Phenyl group
'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2008', Rennes, France, 20082009:
Talk 12 From Spectroscopy of organometallic Complexes to DFT Calculations and back
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University of Southampton, UK, 2009
2010:
Talk 13 New Stories from an old Fellow: The case of a Cr-dimer complex
'Scotchem 2010' University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2010Talk 14 New Stories from an old Fellow: The case of a Cr-dimer complex
'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2010', Taipei, Taiwan, 2010Talk 15 Von der Spektroskopie über Molecular Modelling und zurück: Die Anwendung von beiden Techniken zur Identifizierung von reaktiven Zwischenprodukten in der homogenen Katalyse
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'Habilitationsvortrag', Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, 2010
2011:
Talk 16 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany, 2011Talk 17 Model compounds for anionic ethene polymerisation
'EICC-1: First EuCheMS Inorganid Conference', Manchester, UK, 2011Talk 18 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
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University College London, London, UK, 2011
2012:
Talk 19 Model compounds for anionic ethene polymerisation
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'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2012', Lisbon, Portugal, 2012
2014:
Talk 20 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2014Talk 21 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
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KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, 2014
2015:
Talk 22 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2015Talk 23 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2015Talk 24 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
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Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, 2015
2016:
Talk 25 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
University of Botswana, Botswana, 2016Talk 26 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2016Talk 27 Converting propene into petrol at ambient temperature and pressure: How does it work?
'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2016', Melbourne, Australia, 2016Talk 28 Converting propene into petrol and chewing gum at ambient temperature and pressure: How does it work?
KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, 2016Talk 29 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
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University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2016
2019:
Talk 30 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
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Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2019
2021:
Talk 31 Easy-Build Singularity Containers
EasyBuild User Meeting, online, 2021Talk 32 Ru-H bond activation by means of x-ray radiation
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European Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (online), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2021
2022:
Talk 33 Semi-automated workflow for adding software to EESSI
EasyBuild User Meeting, online, 2022Talk 34 Ru-H bond activation by means of x-ray radiation
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, 2022Talk 35 Ru-H bond activation by means of x-ray radiation
International Charge Density meeting , Aarhus, DK, 2022Talk 36 Ru-H bond activation by means of x-ray radiation
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'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2022', Prague, Czech Republic, 2022
2023:
Talk 37 Scientific Reproducibility: The importance of reliable and sustainable software installation.
Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) , Manchester, UK, 2023
Video
Slides
2024:
Talk 38 Byte-sized RSE events: Introduction to EasyBuild
Byte-sized RSE , London, UK, 2024
Slides
Asciinema files
YouTube Video
Podcast
Talk 39 From DFT to spectroscopy and back:
The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2024Talk 40 EasyBob, the friendly software installation bot YouTube PDF
EUM24 Umeå, Sweden 2024Talk 41 Helical dinuclear transition metal complexes with dinucleating [S,N] ligands: synthesis, characterisation and computational studies.
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'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2024', Agra, India, 2024 Preprint: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-b25hm
Selected Poster Presentations
Poster 1 Propene Polymerisation with Cp*TiMe3/B(C6F5)3: A "quasi - living" System?
The Macro Group UK: 'Recent Advances in the Polymer Synthesis', University of York, UK, 1996Poster 2 Cationic Group 4 Half Sandwich Complexes with Intramolecular Phenyl Coordination
The Marco Group UK: Spring Meeting 1997 for Younger Researchers, University of Leeds, UK 1997Poster 3 Evidence for Cationic Group 4 Zirconocene Complexes with Intramolecular Phenyl Co-ordination
The XVIIIth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Munich, Germany, 1998Poster 4 Dicationic and Zwitterionic-Cationic Zirconium Complexes
Meeting at the University of Münster, Germany, 1999Poster 5 Dicationic and Zwitterionic-Cationic Zirconium Complexes
AGICHEM 2002, 6th International Conference on Inorganic Chemistry Munich, Germany, 2002Poster 6 Cp*TiMe3 and C5H(5-n)(SiMe3)nTiMe3 (n=1-3) as propene polymerisation catalysts: A comparison
ISHC-14, 14th International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, Munich, Germany, 2004Poster 7 A DFT Study of CpCp(XH2Ph)ZrCl Cations (X = C, Si)
Darmstädter Molecular Modelling Workshop, Erlangen, Germany, 2005Poster 8 NMR and DFT studies of phenyl substituted cationic and dicationic zirconocene compounds
XVI. FECHEM Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary, 2005Poster 9 NMR and DFT studies of [CpC5H4(SiMe2Ph)ZrMe]+ and [CpC5H4(SiH2Ph)ZrCl]+
Pacifichem 2005, Hawaii, USA, 2005Poster 10 NMR and DFT Investigations of cationic Zirconocene-Benzyl Compounds
International Conference of Organometallic Chemistry 2006, Zaragoza, Spain, 2006Poster 11 NMR and DFT Investigations of cationic Zirconocene-Benzyl Compounds
1st European Chemistry Congress, Budapest, Hungary, 2006Poster 12 DFT and NMR Investigations of Cationic Zirconocene Compounds with Appended Phenyl Groups
Twelfth International Conference on the Application of Density Functional Theory, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007Poster 13 Detailed DFT Study of 'quasi living' Propene Polymerisation
Symposium für Theoretische Chemie, Ramsau, Austria, 2008Poster 14 Detailed DFT Study of 'quasi living' Propene Polymerisation
SymPOC 2009, Glasgow, UK, 2009Poster 15 From DFT to spectroscopy and back: The use of both techniques to unearth active compounds in homogeneous catalysis
ScotCHEM 2009, Edinburgh, UK, 2009Poster 16 Revisiting the Cossee Mechanism: How free is the 'free' coordination site?
IUPAC 2009, Glasgow, UK, 2009Poster 17 New Stories from an old Fellow: The case of a Cr-dimer complex
'Symposium of Physical Orangic Chemistry (SYMPOC) 2010' University of Bristol, Bristol, 2010Poster 18 DFT calculations of a multi-metallic complex with a planar Cu4OH motif.
'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2010', Taipei, Taiwan, 2010Poster 19 Detailed DFT investigations of titanium amido based olefin catalysts.
'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2012', Lisbon, Portugal, 2012Poster 20 Isobutene Polymerisation with [Cp2Al]+: Is DFT failing here?
DFT 2013, Durham, UKPoster 21 Detailed computational studies of the unusual water adduct [Cp2TiMe(OH2)]+: The role of the solvent and the counterion.
NSCCS user meeting 2013, London, UKPoster 22 + 23 Detailed computational studies of the unusual water adduct [Cp2TiMe(OH2)]+: The role of the solvent and the counterion.
Propene Oligomerisation at Ambient Temperature with [(C5H5)(C5H4SiMe2C6H4Me)ZrMe2]
'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2014', Sapporo, JapanPoster 24 Propene Oligomerisation at ambient Temperature and Pressure: How does it work?
NSCCS user meeting 2015, London, UKPoster 25 + 26 Can we replace the Ru in [LRu(H2)2(H)] compounds with Fe? A detailed DFT study
How to make chewing gum at -60 C: The versatile chemistry of zirconocene dications
'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2018', Florence, ItalyPoster 27 Combined high resolution x-ray and DFT Bader analysis to reveal a proposed Ru-H . . . Si interaction in Cp(IPr)Ru(H)2SiH(Ph)Me
Tools for Chemical Bonding workshop 2019, Bremen, GermanyPoster 28 Pentavalent or -coordinated: Detailed dft investigation of a Ti-Al-C compound
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'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry 2022', Prague, Czech Republic, 2022