Dr David Glowacki is a Royal Society Research fellow and proleptic lecturer, joint between the Department of Chemistry and Computer Science. From 2013 - 2015, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA), Glowacki obtained his BA in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) in 2003. He then moved to the UK, and obtained a master of arts (MA) in cultural theory as a Fulbright scholarship finalist at the University of Manchester. With funding from an Overseas Research Studentship, he completed his PhD at the University of Leeds in 2008 with Prof. Michael Pilling, using both experimental and theoretical approaches to understand chemical kinetics and dynamics relevant to Earth’s atmosphere.

Non-equilibrium molecular reaction dynamics

Glowacki, D, Rose, R, Greaves, S, Orr-Ewing, A & Harvey, J, 2011, ‘Ultrafast energy flow in the wake of solution phase bimolecular reactions’. Nature Chemistry, vol 3., pp. 850 - 855 Glowacki, DR, Lockhart, J, Blitz, MA, Klippenstein, SJ, Pilling, M, Robertson, S & Seakins, PW, 2012, ‘Interception of excited vibrational quantum states by O2 in atmospheric association reactions’. Science, vol 337., pp. 1066-1069 Glowacki, D, Harvey, J & Mulholland, A, 2012, ‘Taking Ockham's razor to enzyme dynamics and catalysis’. Nature Chemistry, vol 4., pp. 169-176 Glowacki, DR, Liang, C-H, Morley, C, Pilling, MJ & Robertson, SH, 2012, ‘MESMER: An Open-Source Master Equation Solver for Multi-Energy Well Reactions’. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol 116., pp. 9545-9560 Dunning, GT, Glowacki, DR, Preston, TJ, Greaves, SJ, Greetham, GM, Clark, IP, Towrie, M, Harvey, JN & Orr-Ewing, AJ, 2015, ‘Reaction dynamics. Vibrational relaxation and microsolvation of DF after F-atom reactions in polar solvents’. Science (New York, N.Y.), vol 347., pp. 530-3 Carpenter, BK, Harvey, JN & Glowacki, DR, 2014, ‘Prediction of enhanced solvent-induced enantioselectivity for a ring opening with a bifurcating reaction path’. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol 17., pp. 8372-8381