IFM staff

Aprof Tiffany Walsh

Research interests:

• Materials modelling of bio/nano interfaces, principally at the molecular level, to make connections between molecular scale details and macroscopic properties.


• Development of efficient molecular simulation approaches for the meaningful study of self-assembly of large biomolecules and their structure-function relationships.


• Application of these approaches to investigate problems ranging from the directed biomolecule-mediated assembly of inorganic nanoparticles, through to modeling the mechanical response of keratin fibres in skin in the presence of molecular additives.

Qualifications:

• PhD in Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Darwin College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K
• Bachelor of Science (Hons.), Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia

Relevant employment history:

2012-current: Associate Professor in Bio/Nanotechnology, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

2002-2012: Associate Professor in Computational & Theoretical Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K

2000-2002: Glasstone Fellow in Dept. of Materials and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Materials Modelling Laboratory, Dept. of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K

1998-2000: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Materials Modelling Laboratory, Dept. of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K

A list of the ten most significant relevant publications for the last five years:

1. Monti S and Walsh TR. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Adsorption and Dynamical Behavior of Single DNA Components on TiO2. J. Phys. Chem. C. 2011, 115, 24238.
2. Oren EE, Notman R, Kim IW, Evans JS, Walsh TR, Samudrala R, Tamerler C and Sarikaya M Probing the Molecular Mechanisms of Quartz-Binding Peptides, Langmuir, 2010, 26, 11003.
3. Skelton AA, Liang TN and Walsh TR. Interplay of Sequence, Conformation and Binding at the Titania-Peptide Interface as Mediated by Water, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfac., 2009, 1, 1482.
4. Liang TN and Walsh TR. A Multipole-Based Water Force-Field with Implicit Polarization for Biomolecular Simulations, J. Comp. Chem. 2009, 30, 893.
5. Tomasio SM and Walsh TR. Modelling the Binding Affinity of Peptides for Graphitic Surfaces; Influences of Aromatic Content and Interfacial Shape, J. Phys. Chem C., 2009, 113, 8778.
6. Evans JS, Samudrala R, Walsh TR, Oren EE and Tamerler C. Molecular Design of Inorganic-Binding Polypeptides, MRS. Bull., 2008, 33, 514.
7. Tomasio SD and Walsh TR. Atomistic Modelling of the Interaction Between Peptides and Carbon Nanotubes, Mol. Phys. 2007 105, 221.
8. Walsh TR. Exact-exchange and Wilson-Levy Correlation: a Pragmatic Device for Studying Weakly-Bonded Systems, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2005, 7, 443.
9. Walsh TR, Wilson M and Sutton AP. Hydrolysis of the Amorphous Silica Surface. II. Calculation of Activation Barriers and Mechanisms, J. Chem. Phys. 2000, 113, 9191.
10. Miller M, Wales DJ and Walsh TR, Archetypal Energy Landscapes, Nature, 1998, 394, 6695.

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