Sean is the foundation Chair of Computational Molecular Science at UQ, Director of the Centre for Computational Molecular Science and Leader of the Computational Bio- and Nano-technology Group within the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. He is also the Computational Nanotechnology Program Leader within the Australian Research Centre for Functional Nanomaterials.

Research projects: (1) theories and computational methods for the quantum description of molecular reactions, (2) computational studies of fluorescent proteins, (3) computational modeling of hydrogen storage in new materials, (4) computational studies of nanoparticle-based methods for DNA transfection into cells, (5) computational device modeling of proposed quantum computing architectures, (6) computational characterization of the mechanism for multi-step proton transfer in proteins, (7) theory and computational methods for molecular kinetics in complex systems (combustion kinetics, carbon gasification, atmospheric chemistry, biomolecular kinetics).

Awards:

• Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2007.

• FRACI, Fellowship of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 1999.

• Le Fevre Memorial Prize, Australian Academy of Science, 1998.

• Senior Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 1998.

• French Ministry of Higher Education and Research Senior Scientist Fellowship, France, 1997 (Jan-Apr).

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation visiting scientist, Freiburg,1997 (May-June).

• Rennie Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 1994.

• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Federal Republic of Germany, 1989-1991.
  　

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