Andrus Metsala

Taltech, Estonia

Title: Conformational scan across reaction path may give us non reactive transition states with low energy

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Biography

Andrus Metsala is senior researcher, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Institute of Chemistry, Taltech, Estonia. He studied theoretical physics at Tartu University, Estonia. He obtained his Ph.D.in 1997 at the same university in the field of computational and theoretical chemistry. He is as senior researcher working at Institute of Chemistry, Tallinn Technical University, since 1997. He received scholarship in 1995 from Munich Technical University, Institute of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry: DAAD. He received BMBF scholarship in 1997 from Munich Technical University, Institute of Physical Chemistry and also received in DLR scholarship 2001 from Heinrich Heine Düsseldorf University. In 2014, he joined in Professor Tõnis Kanger group, where working currently in the field of organic catalysts.

Abstract

Catalysis, Density Functional Theory, Electronic Structure, Computational Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics, Molecular Modeling, Chemical Physics, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Molecular Simulation