We are looking for motivated excellent students. Ideally such candidates would have some experience in computational chemistry research, and be fascinated by the way molecules behave and react with each other.

In my group, we are interested in studying reaction mechanisms and understanding the origins of reactivity of organic and organocatalytic reactions, with a particular focus on quantum mechanical tunneling processes. Our research involves the investigation of the role of tunneling in various reactions, with the goal of learning practical rules that will allow us to catalyze tunneling.

Another research direction in the group is the study of reactivities of organocatalysts for reactions such as C-C couplings, in order to guide the prediction of novel organocatalysts. For this we use reactivity plots, microkinetic analyses and machine learning.

This research is done with the use of computational chemistry methods, including ab initio methods and density functional theory (DFT).