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Office: 1.43 E-mail: Garth.Jones@uea.ac.uk Tel:01603 591469 Fax:01603 592003 School Positions: Lecturer in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
Garth Jones undertook a BSc at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Following that he completed a PhD under Michael N. Paddon-Row at the same institution in 2002. He then moved to the UK to undertake a postdoctoral project at the University of Essex under Chris Reynolds. In 2005 he took a position as an EU postdoctoral researcher as part of the Wonderfull project under Francesco Zerbetto at the Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", Universita' di Bologna, Italy. In 2006 Garth was awarded a prestigious EPSRC , 'Life-Sciences Interface' Fellowship, which he undertook at the University of Essex. As part of the fellowship he was invited to work at the Fleming Group at the University of California, Berkeley where he spent time as a visiting scholar in 2008.
I am a physical chemist who uses computational and theoretical techniques and is principally interested in excited state dynamics of molecules and light-molecule interactions. With different collaborators I have developed several approaches for modelling electronic excited states dynamically, including a Landau-Zener trajectory surface hopping approach that was used to model electron transfer reactions in medium sized organic systems, and an electron dynamics approach that has been used for modelling multi-photon effects, nonlinear optical properties of Fullerenes and electron transfer in DNA photolyase. The most recent technique is a coupled electron-nuclear dynamics approach that has been used to model the photodissociation of water, and is currently being used to model important atmospheric and interstellar reactions. I have also collaborated with numerous experimental groups and have been involved in several combined experimental and theoretical studies including stereo-selectivity studies of intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions (Paddon-Row, UNSW and Sherburn, ANU - Australia), ultra-fast relaxation dynamics of carotenoid molecules (Fleming, UC Berkeley), and EPR studies of tyrosyl radicals in enzyme proteins (Svistunenko, Essex).
Selected publications
What is Adenine Doing in Photolyase?
A. Acocella, G.A. Jones, F. Zerbetto
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2010, 114, 4101-4106.
Unusual Relaxation Pathway from the Two-Photon Excited First Singlet State of Carotenoids
Y. Pang, G. A. Jones, M. A. Prantil, G. R. Fleming
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 2264-2273.
Tyrosyl radicals in proteins: a comparison of empirical and density functional calculated EPR parameters
D. Svistunenko and G.A. Jones
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2009, 11, 6600-6613.
On-the-Fly, Electric-Field-Driven, Coupled Electron-Nuclear Dynamics
G.A. Jones, A. Acocella, F. Zerbetto
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2008, 112, 9650-9656.
Nonlinear optical properties of C60 with explicit time-dependent electron dynamics
G.A. Jones, A. Acocella, F. Zerbetto
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2007, 118, 99-106.
