Talks
18th ICQC: International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Auckland, New Zealand
28 Jan-3 Feb 2026, Organising Committee
ICQC2026
Royal Society, Te Aparangi, Wellington, NZ
September, 2024, Invited Speaker
Title: Ionic liquids and new forms of hydrogen bonding
RSNZ
Ionic Liquids Gordon Research Conference, Newry, Maine, USA
24-9 August, Keynote Speaker
Title: TBD
GRCIonicLiquids
3rd Women in Science-Erlangen Symposium, Erlangen, Germany
22-24 July, Keynote Speaker
Title: TBD
Women in Science Symposium
Faraday Discussion: Dense Ionic Fluids, London, UK
8 - 10 July 2024, Organising Committee
Faraday Dense Ionic Fluids
ASIL11: 11th Australasian Symposium on Ionic Liquids, Deakin, Australia
2-3 May 2024, Keynote Speaker
Title: TBD
ASIL11
Spring ACS 2024: Physical Chemistry of Ionic Liquids
17-22 March 2024, Invited Speaker
Title: Describing ionic liquid systems, partial charges, charge transfer and polarisability
ACS
Spring ACS 2024: In-silico Organic Chemistry, Virtual Symposia
18-20 March 2024, Plenary Speaker
Title: Exploring the Concept of Solvent Polarity with
Application to Ionic Liquids
ACS Global Virtual Symposia
eResearch NZ 2024, Wellington, NZ
7-9 February, 2024, Speaker
Title: SNAP: VUW Hub for Simulation, Numerical methods, Analytics and Programming
eResearchNZ
MM2023: Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia, Wollongong, Australia
7-10 Dec 2023, Keynote Speaker
Title: Ionic Liquid Solvent Effects for Non-Polar Reactions
MM2023
School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia
6 Dec 2023, Invited Speaker
Title: Ionic Liquid Solvent Effects for Non-Polar Reactions
UNSW
AOC-GSC8: 8th Asia-Oceania Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Auckland, NZ
29 Nov -1 Dec 2023, Invited Speaker
Title: Exploring the potential for ionic liquid derived bio-degradable and bio-compatible proton conducting membranes
AOC-GSC8
GNS Science, Wellington, NZ
15 June, 2023, Invited Speaker
Title: Molecular orbital theory of N2 transition metal complexes
GNS Science
GNS Science, Wellington, NZ
5 May, 2023, Invited Speaker
Title: Applications of Molecular Quantum Chemistry
GNS Science
10th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN10), Rotorua, NZ
7-10 Feburary, 2023, Invited Speaker
Title: Ionic liquid systems: exploring partial charges, charge transfer and polarizability.
AMN10
New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (NZIC) 2022, Auckland, NZ
21-24 November, 2022, Keynote Speaker
Title: What are the chemical features that underpin ionic liquid viscosity?
NZIC 2022
Thermodynamics'2022, Bath, UK
7-9 September, 2022, Plenary Speaker
Title: Describing ionic systems, how important are partial charges, charge transfer and polarisability?
Thermodynamics'2022
WATOC: Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, Vancouver, Canada
3-8 July, 2022, Invited Speaker
originally 2020, rescheduled to 2022 due to Covid19
Title: TBD
WATOC 2020
NZIC Wellington branch AGM
3 November, 2021, Invited Speaker
Title: Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids
MacDiarmid Institute Seminar
22 July, 2021, Invited Speaker
Title: HaloBismuthate Ionic Liquids
MacDiarmid Institute
NZIC Auckland University Seminar
6 November, 2020, Invited Speaker
Title: Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents
School of Chemical Sciences, Auckland University
MacDiarmid Institute Seminar
22 October, 2020, Invited Speaker
Title: Towards a Molecular Level Understanding of Deep Eutectic Solvents
MacDiarmid Institute
MSILDG: Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids Discussion Group Summer Meeting, on-line, UK
22 July, 2020, Opening Keynote
When does a weakly interacting anion become strongly coordinating? Understanding solvatochromic transition metal complexes in ionic liquids
MSILDG
Zoom presentation, Harper Group, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
22 May, 2020, Invited Speaker
Title: Understanding Ionic Liquids from the Electronic Structure Up
Jason Harper, UNSW
Fukui-ISTC2020: International Symposium on Theoretical/Computational Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan,
Sept 2020, Invited Speaker
cancelled due to Covid19
Fukui-ISTC2020
- Minisymposium Mathematical and computational methods in chemistry –" From molecular modelling to materials and environmental science" at the 20th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE) Rota, Cadiz, Spain
July 2020, Invited Speaker
cancelled due to Covid19
2020 CMMSE
ASIL: Australasian Symposium on Ionic Liquids, Melbourne, Australia
May 2020, Invited Speaker
cancelled due to Covid19
ASIL9
BP Exploration, ICBT, BP International Centre for Business & Technology, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, UK
2 July, 2019, Invited Speaker
Title: Ionic Liquids from the Electronic Structure Up
BP
Center for Process Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London
3 June, 2019, Invited Speaker
Title: Understanding ILs from the electronic structure up
Center for Process Systems Engineering
COIL8-The 8th International Congresson Ionic Liquids, Beijing, China
13-17 May, 2019, Plenary Speaker
Title: Making ionic liquid mixtures: disruptive vs docile anions
COIL 2018
Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
6th International Symposium on Sustainable Molten Salt and Ionic Liquid Processing
4-7th Nov, 2018, Invited Speaker
Title: Understanding the Different Partial Charge Representations of Ionic Liquids
SIPS Fehrmann International Symposium
Gordon Research Conference on ionic liquids, Newry, Maine, USA
12-17th Aug, 2018, Keynote Speaker
Title: Salts Dissolved in Ionic Liquids
GRE Ionic Liquids
Electrostatics in Concentrated Electrolytes, Lausanne, Switzerland
20-23rd March, 2018, Invited Speaker
Title: Salts and Solvation in Ionic Liquids
CECAM workshop
School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK
7th Feb, 2018, Invited Speaker
Title: Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids
School of Chemistry, Manchester
International Workshop on Soft Matter and Biophysics Theories, Beijing
28-31 Jan, 2018, Keynote Speaker
Title: Salts and Solvation in Ionic Liquids
Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK
17th Jan, 2018, Invited Speaker
Title: An Exploration of H-bonding, anion-pi and pi-stacking interactions within Ionic Liquids
Department of Chemistry, York
Hot Topics in Ionic Liquid Science, Erlangen, Germany
7-8 December, 2017, Invited Speaker
Title: Evaluating the valence electronic structure of [Bmim][SCN]
Lehrstuhl Physikalische Chemie II, FAU Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Ionic Liquids and their Interfaces, Bad Honnef, Germany
3-6 December, 2017, Keynote Speaker
Title: Salts in Ionic Liquids
Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung and Surfaces and Interfaces of Ionic Liquids
Hydrogen Bonds & DNA, Nottingham, UK
Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the discovery by JM Creeth and colleagues in 1947
10 November, 2017, Invited Speaker
Title: Hydrogen bonding and Ionic Liquids
Biochemical Society Conferences
ILMAT 2017: International Conference on Ionic Liquid-based Materials, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
24-27 October, 2017, Plenary Speaker
Title: Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids
ILMAT IV
School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, UK
17th Oct, 2017, Invited Speaker
Title: Understanding Ionic Liquids from the Electronic Structure Up
School of Chemistry, Birmingham
Ionic liquids: from fundamental properties to practical applications - Faraday Discussion, Cambridge, UK
11-13 September, 2017, Joint paper being presented by Kevin Lovelock
Title: Atomic Charges of Sulfur in Ionic Liquids: Experiments and Calculations
Faraday ILs
COIL 7: 7th International Congress on Ionic Liquids, Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada
25-30 June, 2017, Keynote Speaker
Title: conference cancelled
COIL7
Spring ACS Meeting, San-Francisco, USA
Theory and Computation for CO2 Capture, Conversion and Sequestration Symposium
2-6 April, 2017, Invited Speaker
Title: CO2 activation employing a silylium–phosphine frustrated Lewis pair
ACS Spring 2017
Chemistry Department, University of Bristol, UK
7 March, 2017, Invited Speaker
Title: An Exploration of H-bonding, anion-pi and pi-stacking interactions within Ionic Liquids
Chemistry, Bristol
Solvay workshop: Ionic liquids: from fundamentals to applications, Brussels, Belgium
20-23 Feb, 2017, Keynote Speaker
Title: Evaluating the valence electronic structure of [Bmim][SCN]: experimental and computational insights
Solvay Institute
Chemistry Department, University of Bath, UK
19th October, 2017, Invited Speaker
Title: When Ionic Liquids become Deep Eutectic Solvents: H-bonding to HaloBismuthates
Chemistry, Bath
