Ben Hourahine

Senior Lecturer, Physics
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
Measurement Science and Enabling Technologies

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7667-7101

Phone01415482325
Emailbenjamin.hourahine@strath.ac.uk

United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

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Personal profile

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 4^th and 5^th 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

2 Active
9 Finished

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

Quantitative non-destructive nanoscale characterisation of advanced materials

Hourahine, B., Edwards, P., Roper, M., Trager-Cowan, C. & Gunasekar, N.

EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

1/06/17 → 31/05/21

Project: Research

Research Output

A real-time time-dependent density functional tight-binding implementation for semiclassical excited state electron-nuclear dynamics and pump-probe spectroscopy simulations

Bonafé, F. P., Aradi, B., Hourahine, B., Medrano, C. R., Hernández, F. J., Frauenheim, T. & Sánchez, C. G., 14 Jul 2020, In : Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation . 16, 7, p. 4454-4469 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

DFTB+: 20.1

Hourahine, B., Aradi, B., Pecchia, A., Ehlert, S., Bonafé, F. P., Řezáč, J., Buccheri, A., Kranz, J. J., Dominguez, A., van der Heide, T., Kubař, T., Niehaus, T., Mitchell, I., Camacho, C., Sánchez, C. G., Aradi, B., Yu, V., Cevallos, C., Vitkun, C., Penazzi, G. & 1 others, Pankov, Y., 22 Jul 2020

Research output: Non-textual form › Software

Open Access

File

Datasets

Data for: "Determining GaN nanowire polarity and its influence on light emission in the scanning electron microscope"

Gunasekar, N. (Creator), Bruckbauer, J. (Creator), Wang, T. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 29 Apr 2019

DOI: 10.15129/b152a121-3495-4235-b9cd-985bf1355cd8

Dataset

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

Dataset