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Marc Hamilton Garner

@marchgarner.bsky.social

Theoretical and computational chemist. Molecular Electronics, MO theory, Hund's rule violations and more. @carlsbergfondet.bsky.social Postdoc at the Technical University of Denmark.

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PhD fellowship in Organic Synthesis and Supramolecular Chemistry The Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in Organic chemistry with a particular focus on supramolecul

I have a fully funded PhD position available in my group in Copenhagen: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

09.10.2025 06:51 — 👍 12    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2
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PhD fellowship in experimental electrocatalysis

Interested in a PhD in materials, electrocatalysis and structure characterization? You want to dive into research & be part of a young, motivated group environment? And you don't mind grey & windy weather in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 a couple of months/year? Apply right here: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

25.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The call for the first 2y postdoc position on this new project with a start by early 2026 (Jan/Feb) is now live:

efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Please share & repost. Deadline is 14 Sept. Copenhagen is a truly wonderful place to live and we offer excellent terms of employment at DTU.

21.08.2025 10:56 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

I will soon advertise a call for a 2y-postdoc position in my group intended for a talented, motivated, and ambitious candidate to help develop new ways to promote bonds as kernels in the interpretation of chemical simulations.

18.08.2025 08:02 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

This is an excellent illustration of how useless the "Impact Factor" metric is.

The most influential multidisciplinary chem journals are JACS and Angewandte. They did not make the list.

In this short ad hoc 🧵 I will analyze in real time what made the list and why. I have a bad feeling about this.

13.08.2025 20:16 — 👍 52    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 6
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Åndelig oprustning begynder med anerkendelsen af årtiers forsømmelse af dansk humaniora Vi kan ikke komme den nuværende åndsrust til livs uden fra politisk side at erkende, at vi i sandhed befinder os ved en europæisk skillevej

Fra @theyoungacademydk.bsky.social har @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social, Alexandra Jønsson og jeg i dag en længere kronik i @information.dk om åndsrust og udhulningen af humaniora og samfundsvidenskaberne her til lands:

www.information.dk/debat/2025/0...

31.07.2025 06:39 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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Substantial Magnetic Fields Arising from Ballistic Ring Currents in Single-Molecule Junctions When a small electric bias is applied to a single-molecule junction, current will flow through the molecule via a tunneling mechanism. In molecules with a cyclic or helical structure there may be circ...

It has been underway for several years. Finally, our proof-of-concept study on the magnitude of magnetic fields arising from coherent electron transport in single-molecule junctions is published. This is an initial step towards designing a single-molecule electromagnet. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

29.07.2025 06:48 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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PhD scholarship in Machine Learning for Molecules - DTU Chemistry Advance large scale data generation for chemical and biological AI in a 3 year PhD. Work on the frontier of active learning, and develop novel probabilistic machine learning techniques for experiment ...

I'm looking for my first PhD student! We will push the frontiers of probabilistic machine learning for the molecular sciences, and study how to design new algorithms that exploit the unique properties of molecular systems to learn about the world.

efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

24.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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PhD scholarship in Machine Learning for Molecules - DTU Chemistry Advance large scale data generation for chemical and biological AI in a 3 year PhD. Work on the frontier of active learning, and develop novel probabilistic machine learning techniques for experiment ...

Want to work at the frontier of active learning and AI-guided experimentation? @eliweinstein.bsky.social is hiring PhD students at @dtu.dk DTU Chemistry.

Full job link: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Thanks for re-sharing widely!

24.07.2025 17:38 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'

This is a catastrophe in the making

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...

01.07.2025 20:31 — 👍 85    🔁 41    💬 8    📌 7
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Excited State Dynamics of Odd [n]Cumulenes: Chain Length and Conformational Effects Over the past decades, carbon allotropes have been extensively studied and applied to various technological applications due to their unique electronic and optical properties. Contemporary research ha...

Years in the making, finally published! Congrats Bob and Yanwen, and thanks for the great collaboration ‪‪@guldi-group.bsky.social‬!

Excited State Dynamics of Odd [n]Cumulenes
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

17.06.2025 13:41 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Bulk Measurement of Membrane Permeability for Random Cyclic Peptides in Living Cells to Guide Drug Development Some cyclic peptides can cross membranes, which is highly attractive for drug development, but it remains difficult to accurately predict membrane permeability or to test it experimentally for large ...

Very pleased to share the 'last' first-author paper from my postdoc with Prof. Christian Heinis at EPFL.
Now out in its final form in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social as a 'Very Important Paper' 🔥 (1/🧵) #chemsky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

02.06.2025 10:01 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

10.06.2025 05:47 — 👍 240    🔁 180    💬 12    📌 32
Double-hybrid density functionals applied to a large set of INVEST systems: validating the (SOS1-)PBE-DH-INVEST expressions We thoroughly assess here the recently developed PBE-DH-INVEST expression and its SOS1-PBE-DH-INVEST variant, both belonging to the family of Double-Hybrid (DH) density functionals, against the NAH159...

Our last publication is now online (@jmaterchem.rsc.org) for the field of #OLEDs and organic compounds exhibiting Hund’s rule violation (S1 < T1)

Thanks to @marchgarner.bsky.social to originally compile the NAH159 dataset of compounds, really helpful!

#theochem #compchem

05.06.2025 08:58 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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When theory came first: a review of theoretical chemical predictions ahead of experiments For decades, computational theoretical chemistry has provided critical insights into molecular behavior, often anticipating experimental discoveries. This review surveys twenty notable examples from t...

Twenty case studies showing theoretical predictions in chemistry that were later confirmed experimentally. #CompChem 🧪

doi.org/10.1515/pac-...

31.05.2025 14:45 — 👍 56    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 2
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Krigen mod forskning Kronik. Hvis vi vil være tilflugtssted for USAs forskere, må vi feje for egen dør først.

Sammen med @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & @aaaautzen.bsky.social fra @theyoungacademydk.bsky.social har jeg en kronik i Weekendavisen om problemet i at byde sig til over for amerikanske forskere på jagt efter grønnere græsgange uden først at feje for egen dør.

www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-19/opin...

10.05.2025 11:07 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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Join us for ICESAA-4, the 4th International Conference on Excited State Aromaticity & Antiaromaticity!
January 8–11, 2026, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India.
#icesaa4
Website: www.icesaa-4.in
@henrikottosson.bsky.social
@maheshhariharan.bsky.social

08.05.2025 10:51 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 4

Gemma Solomon and I are looking for a postdoc to work across the two groups on modelling biological systems with a view to applications for quantum computing

More details about the project including how to apply in the link below. Deadline April 9 2025

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

22.03.2025 19:18 — 👍 42    🔁 29    💬 3    📌 1
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Danske forskere springes over i tenure track-køen Muligheden for at ansætte adjunkter i tenure track til et lektorat bliver primært brugt til at rekruttere forskere fra udlandet, viser en opgørelse. Det giver hård konkurrence og udveksling af ideer, ...

🔬 Danske forskere overses i tenure track-køen! "Strategien går ud over ligestillingen på universiteterne." For hver danske ansættelse går 2,5 til udlændinge. Er det tid til at gentænke systemet for mere retfærdige karriereveje? Læs mere her: dm.dk/forskerforum... #dkforsk @forskerforumdk.bsky.social

21.03.2025 08:40 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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When Theory Came First: A Review of Theoretical Chemical Predictions Ahead of Experiments For decades, computational theoretical chemistry has provided critical insights into molecular behavior, often anticipating experimental discoveries. This review surveys twenty notable examples from t...

It started as X discussion in Aug 2024. Now it's a preprint:

When Theory Came First: A Review of Theoretical Chemical Predictions Ahead of Experiments

🧪#compchem doi.org/10.26434/che...

01.03.2025 05:13 — 👍 49    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0
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Inverse Design of Singlet‐Fission Materials with Uncertainty‐Controlled Genetic Optimization We uncover candidates for singlet fission using a machine learning-driven uncertainty-controlled genetic algorithm (ucGA), which is run either in an exploitative or explorative manner. Leveraging a f...

Inverse Design of Singlet-Fission Materials with Uncertainty-Controlled Genetic Optimization doi.org/10.1002/anie... #compchem

18.02.2025 06:15 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

My rant of the day: You can be rejected from an MSCA postdoctoral fellowship despite scoring almost the maximum in every category and receiving virtually no negative feedback. Before I explain why this is disastrous (assuming it is a common issue), a few comments.

10.02.2025 07:28 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
A photo of Kasper Tolborg at the Villum Young Investigator ceremony

A photo of Kasper Tolborg at the Villum Young Investigator ceremony

Incredibly honoured to receive a Villum Young Investigator grant from the Villum Foundation!

This will allow me to build a research group to pursue a major challenge in materials science, namely designing materials with tailored disorder.

A huge thanks to the foundation for supporting my research.

27.01.2025 19:52 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0
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Length-Dependent Conduction of Polyynes: Searching for the Limit of the Tunneling Regime Rigid, conjugated molecules are excellent candidates as molecular wires since they can achieve full extension between electrodes while maintaining conjugation. Molecular design can be used to minimize...

Very, very happy to finally see our wires, ahem, act like wires. Thanks to the crew at IMDEA, and congrats to 'soon to be Professor' Yueze Gao for his first "*"

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

23.01.2025 16:46 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare

Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

21.01.2025 17:56 — 👍 480    🔁 193    💬 17    📌 77
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163163 Associate professor or Tenure-track assistant professor in computational drug development

Associate professor or Tenure-track assistant professor in computational drug development, U Copenhagen 🇩🇰 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #compchem

17.01.2025 06:14 — 👍 28    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 1
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Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry for Synthesis & Materials at University of Birmingham Start your UK &amp; international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Come be my colleague! We are recruiting an Assistant Prof in #compchem - broadly defined, all areas are welcome, the key requirement is excellence! Deadline February 2. #academicjobs @chemjobber.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLH550/a...

14.01.2025 12:12 — 👍 20    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 1

Still 1 week left to apply for a postdoc position in computational design of disordered crystalline materials in my group at Aalborg University, Denmark!

See more in the link below

#compchem #chemsky

07.01.2025 15:06 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoc opportunity at University of Southern Denmark: Has the time come for realizing quantum computing for transition metal complexes?

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Deadline: Feb 15, 2025
Start Date: March 1, 2025
Duration: 2 years
More info: kongsted@sdu.dk
RT appreciated 🙏 @chemjobber.bsky.social

18.12.2024 11:52 — 👍 6    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Postdoc in Computational design of disordered crystalline materials (2024-224-06155) A postdoc position in computational materials chemistry is available to design sustainable materials with tailored disorder using computational chemistry and...

📣 Postdoc position in computational materials chemistry available

I am looking for a postdoc to join my group and work on computational design of disordered crystalline materials

Read more and apply here: www.vacancies.aau.dk/scientific-p...

Repost are highly appreciated!

#compchem

16.12.2024 11:46 — 👍 27    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 2

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