STAFF PROFILE
Dr Andrew Christofferson
Position:
Lecturer - School of Science, Applied Chemistry and Environmental Science
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Science
Campus:
City Campus
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Research supervision
Research interests
- Structure determination of novel materials
- Protein-protein and protein-nanoparticle interactions
- Application of quantum mechanics calculations, classical molecular dynamics simulations, and advanced sampling techniques to biological systems
- Force field parameterisation and comparison
Awards and grants
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting travel award, 2015
- Ian Potter Foundation travel grant, 2015
- Australian Nanotechnology Network Early Career Researcher travel bursary, 2014
- National Natural Science Foundation of China research grant (approx. $30,000 USD), 2010
- Biochemical Society (UK) travel grant, 2008
- PhD scholarship, University of Birmingham Department of Chemistry, 2005-2008
- Peace Corps Small Project Assistance grant, 2004
- Peace Corps Partnership Program grant, 2003
- Fry Scholarship, Montana State University, 2002
- Undergraduate Scholars Program grant, Montana State University, 2001
- Department of Chemistry scholarship, Montana State University, 1998
- Max Worthington scholarship, Montana State University, 1998
- PhD (Chemistry), University of Birmingham, UK, 2010
- Title of Project: A Computational Investigation of the Mechanism of CB1954 Reduction by E.coli Nitroreductase
- Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) Montana State University, USA, 2002
Membership of professional societies
- American Chemical Society
- Australasian Colloids and Interface Society
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia
- Australian Nanotechnology Network
Positions
- Research Fellow, School of Engineering/School of Science, RMIT University, Australia, 2012-present
- Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Biological Sciences, P. R. China, 2010-2011
- Process Engineer, Semitool, Inc., USA, 2005
- Bryant, S.,Christofferson, A.,Greaves, T.,McConville, C.,Bryant, G.,Elbourne, A. (2022). Bulk and interfacial nanostructure and properties in deep eutectic solvents: Current perspectives and future directions In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 608, 2430 - 2454
- Wells, D.,Berntsen, P.,Balaur, E.,Kewish, C.,Adams, P.,Binns, J.,Broomhall, H.,Christofferson, A.,Conn, C.,Greaves, T.,Kadaoluwa Pathirannahalage, S.,Martin, A., et al, . (2022). Observations of phase changes in monoolein during high viscous injection In: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 29, 1 - 13
- Tang, J.,Lambie, S.,Meftahi, N.,Christofferson, A.,Daeneke, T.,McConville, C.,Russo, S. P., et al, . (2022). Oscillatory bifurcation patterns initiated by seeded surface solidification of liquid metals In: Nature Synthesis, 1, 158 - 169
- Zuraqi, K.,Parker, C.,Zavabeti, A.,Christofferson, A.,Maniam, S.,McConville, C.,Chiang, K.,Daeneke, T. (2022). Field's Metal Nanodroplets for Creating Phase-Change Materials In: ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5, 5952 - 5958
- Cheeseman, S.,Elbourne, A.,Gangadoo, S.,Shaw, Z.,Bryant, S.,Syed, N.,Christofferson, A.,Crawford, R.,Daeneke, T.,Chapman, J.,Truong, V. K., et al, . (2022). Interactions between Liquid Metal Droplets and Bacterial, Fungal, and Mammalian Cells In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 9, 1 - 14
- Shaw, Z.,Kuriakose, S.,Cheeseman, S.,Dickey, M.,Genzer, J.,Christofferson, A.,Crawford, R.,McConville, C.,Chapman, J.,Truong, V.,Elbourne, A.,Walia, S. (2021). Antipathogenic properties and applications of low-dimensional materials In: Nature Communications, 12, 1 - 19
- Pan, S.,Richardson, J.,Christofferson, A.,Besford, Q.,Zheng, T.,Wood, B.,Duan, X.,Fornerod, M.,McConville, C.,Yarovsky, I.,Guldin, S.,Jiang, L.,Caruso, F. (2021). Fluorinated Metal–Organic Coatings with Selective Wettability In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 9972 - 9981
- Kadaoluwa Pathirannahalage, S.,Meftahi, N.,Elbourne, A.,Weiss, A.,McConville, C.,Padua, A.,Winkler, D.,Costa Gomes, M.,Greaves, T.,Le, T.,Besford, Q.,Christofferson, A. (2021). Systematic Comparison of the Structural and Dynamic Properties of Commonly Used Water Models for Molecular Dynamics Simulations In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 61, 4521 - 4536
- Hammons, J.,Besford, Q.,Ilavsky, J.,Christofferson, A. (2021). Manipulating meso-scale solvent structure from Pd nanoparticle deposits in deep eutectic solvents In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 155, 1 - 14
- Ghasemian, M.,Zavabeti, A.,Mousavi, M.,Murdoch, B.,Christofferson, A.,Meftahi, N.,Tang, J.,Han, J.,Jalili, A.,Allioux, F.,Mayyas, M.,Chen, Z.,Elbourne, A.,McConville, C.,Russo, S.,Ringer, S.,Kalantar Zadeh, K. (2021). (In Press) Doping Process of 2D Materials Based on the Selective Migration of Dopants to the Interface of Liquid Metals In: Advanced Materials, , 1 - 12
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions
Computational modelling of organic monolayers on water, Polymer stereocomplexes, Protein-protein and protein-nanoparticle interactions, Environmentally responsive surfaces, Force field comparison and parameterisation
- Liquid metal solvents and colloids – a new frontier. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects commencing in 2022 from (2022 to 2025)
- Ian Potter Travel Grant to attend 'The 2015 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, 29 November - 4 December 2015'.. Funded by: Ian Potter Foundation Travel Grant 2015 Round 2 from (2015 to 2016)