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Personal Statement
I have been based in the Semiconductor Spectroscopy and Devices group in the department of Physics since 2005, providing a theoretical counterpart to the experimental activities of this group. At present my research activities are in three main areas of computational and theoretical nanoscience: Understanding optical and electron microscopy on the nanoscale; Developing and applying semi-empirical quantum mechanical modelling tools in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics; Multiscale materials modelling of crystal growth and phase transitions.
I coordinate the 4th and 5th year undergraduate programmes in Physics, also teaching final year courses in computational physics, advanced solid state physics and nanoscience.
| e: benjamin.hourahine@strath.ac.uk | t: 0141 548 2325 | u: http://ssd.phys.strath.ac.uk/ |
Industrial Relevance
The large scale materials science and quantum-chemistry package I co-develop ( DFTB+ ) is commercially licensed to companies including BIOVIA.
Expertise & Capabilities
Theoretical solid state and condensed matter physics
Quantum chemstry and computational chemistry
High performance and accuracy Nano-Photonics and Plasmonics
Large scale density functional and density functional-based methods
Joint developer of commercialised materials science / quantum chemistry software
Extensive experience with large scale parallel computational systems - developed TIER 0 ready multi-thousand compute core codes.
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Projects
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Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Starosta, Bohdan
Hourahine, B., Edwards, P. & Starosta, B.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/18 → 1/06/22
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated
Research Output
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Advances in electron channelling contrast imaging and electron backscatter diffraction for imaging and analysis of structural defects in the scanning electron microscope
Trager-Cowan, C., Alasmari, A., Avis, W., Bruckbauer, J., Edwards, P. R., Hourahine, B., Kraeusel, S., Kusch, G., Jablon, B. M., Johnston, R., Martin, R. W., McDermott, R., Naresh-Kumar, G., Nouf-Allehiani, M., Pascal, E., Thomson, D., Vespucci, S., Mingard, K., Parbrook, P. J., Smith, M. D. & 17 others, , 5 Aug 2020, In: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 891, 1, 11 p., 012023.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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Anomalous Ising freezing times
Denholm, J. & Hourahine, B., 23 Sep 2020, (Unpublished) In: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2020, 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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Data for: "Subgrain structure and dislocations in WC-Co hard metals revealed by electron channelling contrast imaging"
Jablon, B. M. (Creator), Mingard, K. (Creator), Winkelmann, A. (Creator), Gunasekar, N. (Creator), Hourahine, B. (Creator) & Trager-Cowan, C. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 18 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.15129/c80a3a0c-a718-4941-ac82-8981d21799ce
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Data for: “Scanning electron microscopy as a flexible technique for investigating the properties of UV-emitting nitride semiconductor thin films”
Trager-Cowan, C. (Creator), Alasmari, A. M. A. (Creator), Avis, W. (Contributor), Bruckbauer, J. (Creator), Edwards, P. (Contributor), Hourahine, B. (Contributor), Kraeusel, S. (Contributor), Kusch, G. (Creator), Johnston, R. (Contributor), Gunasekar, N. (Creator), Martin, R. (Contributor), Mohammad S, A. (Creator), Pascal, E. (Contributor), Spasevski, L. (Creator), Thomson, D. (Contributor), Vespucci, S. (Contributor), Parbrook, P. (Contributor), Smith, M. (Contributor), Enslin, J. (Contributor), Mehnke, F. (Contributor), Kneissl, M. (Contributor), Kuhn, C. (Contributor), Wernicke, T. (Contributor), Hagedorn, S. (Contributor), Knauer, A. (Contributor), Kueller, V. (Contributor), Walde, S. (Contributor), Weyers, M. (Contributor), Coulon, P. (Creator), Shields, P. (Contributor), Zhang, Y. (Contributor), Jiu, L. (Contributor), Gong, Y. (Contributor), Smith, R. M. (Contributor), Wang, T. (Contributor) & Winkelmann, A. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 28 Oct 2019
DOI: 10.15129/b5238863-a088-4f30-8b13-2625260eb73a
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Prizes
Activities
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Being slightly wrong for fun and profit: large scale semi-empirical modelling of materials
Ben Hourahine (Speaker)
3 Aug 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Recent DFTB+ news
Ben Hourahine (Speaker)
28 Jul 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk