 Dr. Michael B. Sullivan Michael Sullivan spent the early part of his life in Minnesota USA where he received his B.A. cum laude in chemistry with All College Honors from St. John’s University in 1995 and then his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota for his work in computational chemistry with Chris Cramer in 2000. He then moved to the Australian National University to work as a post-doctoral fellow with Leo Radom for two and a half years. From there, he spent a year at the Singapore-MIT Alliance and then to the Institute of High Performance Computing where he's been since 2004. He is currently Assistant Programme Manager for the Computational Materials Science and Engineering Programme and also holds an adjunct position in the Chemistry Dept at the National University of Singapore. His group's current research focuses on surface and interfacial chemistry. For example, they are studying CO oxidation on Pd-based alloys. By understanding how addition of an alloy metal changes the barriers, they can develop new catalysts that are cheaper and more efficient. In addition, they are interested in studying interfaces between two materials. They are studying which materials form strong interactions and what the properties of the interface are. In many cases especially for electronics applications, people need to know if the interface between a polymer and metal are compatible for a particular use. Lastly, they have performed multi-scale modeling on ferroelectric polymers and studied the dielectric properties of nickel oxide-based ceramics. More information is available at http://www.sullivan.sg/ |
