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Elena Besley

Professor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Faculty of Science

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Biography

Elena Besley obtained her PhD in Physics and Mathematics (2000) from St.Petersburg State University, Russia. In 2000 she held a Royal Society/NATO postdoctoral research fellowship at the Queen's University of Belfast. There followed postdoctoral research appointments in Chemistry at the Universities of Nottingham, Sussex and Cambridge. In 2007 Elena was awarded a Royal Society UK Relocation Fellowship and moved back to Nottingham. In 2007 she was a Visiting Academic Research Fellow at the Australian National University. Prof. E. Besley was awarded an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (2008-2014) and an ERC Consolidator Grant (2013-2018). She was appointed to a Lecturer in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at Nottingham in 2011, followed by promotion to Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in 2015. Prof. E. Besley is a co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Sustainable Hydrogen (2019 - 2027).

Research Summary

development of theoretical and computational methods to prediction of materials properties; computational modelling of the behaviour, properties and manipulation of nanomaterials; electrostatic… read more

Recent Publications

  • MINERS, S.A., FAY, M.W., BALDONI, M., BESLEY, E., KHLOBYSTOV, A.N. and RANCE, G.A., 2019. Steric and electronic control of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions in carbon nanotube nanoreactors JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C. 123(10), 6294-6302
  • TEMPERTON, ROBERT H, SKOWRON, STEPHEN T, HANDRUP, KARSTEN, GIBSON, ANDREW J, NICOLAOU, ALESSANDRO, JAOUEN, NICOLAS, BESLEY, ELENA and O'SHEA, JAMES N, 2019. Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering of a Ru photosensitizer: Insights from individual ligands to the electronic structure of the complete molecule. The Journal of chemical physics. 151(7), 074701
  • BOLOGNESI, MARGHERITA, BRUCALE, MARCO, LORENZONI, ANDREA, PRESCIMONE, FEDERICO, MOSCHETTO, SALVATORE, KOROLKOV, VLADIMIR V, BALDONI, MATTEO, SERRANO-RUIZ, MANUEL, CAPORALI, MARIA, MERCURI, FRANCESCO, BESLEY, ELENA, MUCCINI, MICHELE, PERUZZINI, MAURIZIO, BETON, PETER H and TOFFANIN, STEFANO, 2019. Epitaxial multilayers of alkanes on two-dimensional black phosphorus as passivating and electrically insulating nanostructures. Nanoscale.
  • SUMMERFIELD, ALEX, BALDONI, MATTEO, KONDRATUK, DMITRY V., ANDERSON, HARRY L., WHITELAM, STEPHEN, GARRAHAN, JUAN P., BESLEY, ELENA and BETON, PETER H., 2019. Ordering, flexibility and frustration in arrays of porphyrin nanorings NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 10, 2932

Current Research

development of theoretical and computational methods to prediction of materials properties; computational modelling of the behaviour, properties and manipulation of nanomaterials; electrostatic interactions and self-assembly; gas storage and interactions in porous solids.

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