STAFF PROFILE
Dr Andrew Christofferson
Position:
Research Fellow
College / Portfolio:
School of Science
School / Department:
Applied Chemistry and Environmental Sci
Campus:
Melbourne 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
- Tang, J.,Lambie, S.,Meftahi, N.,Christofferson, A.,Yang, J.,Ghasemian, M.,Han, J.,Allioux, F.,Rahim, M.,Mayyas, M.,Daeneke, T.,McConville, C.,Steenbergen, K.,Kaner, R.,Russo, S.,Gaston, N.,Kalantar Zadeh, K. (2021). (In Press) Unique surface patterns emerging during solidification of liquid metal alloys In: Nature Nanotechnology, , 1 - 21
- Christofferson, A. (2020). Asymmetric ligand binding in homodimeric Enterobacter cloacae nitroreductase yields the Michaelis complex for nitroaromatic substrates In: Journal of Molecular Modeling, 26, 1 - 16
- Zhang, W.,Besford, Q.,Christofferson, A.,Charchar, P.,Richardson, J.,Elbourne, A.,Kempe, K.,Hagemeyer, C.,Field, M.,McConville, C.,Yarovsky, I.,Caruso, F. (2020). Cobalt-Directed Assembly of Antibodies onto Metal-Phenolic Networks for Enhanced Particle Targeting In: Nano Letters, 20, 2660 - 2666
- Yalcin, D.,Christofferson, A.,Drummond, C.,Greaves, T. (2020). Solvation properties of protic ionic liquid - molecular solvent mixtures In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22, 10995 - 11011
- Cheeseman, S.,Christofferson, A.,Kariuki, R.,Cozzolino, D.,Daeneke, T.,Crawford, R.,Truong, V.,Chapman, J.,Elbourne, A. (2020). Antimicrobial Metal Nanomaterials: From Passive to Stimuli-Activated Applications In: Advanced Science, 7, 1 - 35
- Meftahi, N.,Manian, A.,Christofferson, A.,Lyskov, I.,Russo, S. (2020). A computational exploration of aggregation-induced excitonic quenching mechanisms for perylene diimide chromophores In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 153, 1 - 13
- Christofferson, A.,Elbourne, A.,Cheeseman, S.,Shi, Y.,Chapman, J.,McConville, C.,Crawford, R.,Truong, V., et al, . (2020). Conformationally tuned antibacterial oligomers target the peptidoglycan of Gram-positive bacteria In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 580, 850 - 862
- Besford, Q.,Christofferson, A.,Kalayan, J.,Sommer, J.,Henchman, R. (2020). The Attraction of Water for Itself at Hydrophobic Quartz Interfaces In: The journal of physical chemistry. B, 124, 6369 - 6375
- Meftahi, N.,Klymenko, M.,Christofferson, A.,Bach, U.,Winkler, D.,Russo, S. (2020). Machine learning property prediction for organic photovoltaic devices In: npj Computational Materials, 6, 1 - 8
- Cheeseman, S.,Elbourne, A.,Kariuki, R.,Ramarao, A.,Zavabeti, A.,Syed, N.,Christofferson, A.,Kwon, K.,Jung, W.,Dickey, M.,Kalantar Zadeh, K.,McConville, C.,Crawford, R.,Daeneke, T.,Chapman, J.,Truong, V. (2020). Broad-spectrum treatment of bacterial biofilms using magneto-responsive liquid metal particles In: Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 8, 10776 - 10787
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Completions2 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
- 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)