Herchel Smith Fellow

David Furman, PhD MRSC holds a joint appointment as the Herchel Smith Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and a Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College. He obtained a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the Fritz Haber Center at HUJI working with Prof. Yehuda Zeiri and Prof. Ronnie Kosloff. In Cambridge, he collabroates closely with the group of Prof. David Wales on development and application of reactive energy landscape methods.

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Publications

Mechanism of Intact Adsorbed Molecules Ejection Using High Intensity Laser Pulses
D Furman, R Kosloff, Y Zeiri
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2016)
120
Reactive Force Field for Liquid Hydrazoic Acid with Applications to Detonation Chemistry
D Furman, F Dubnikova, ACT van Duin, Y Zeiri, R Kosloff
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2016)
120
Decomposition of Condensed Phase Energetic Materials: Interplay between Uni- and Bimolecular Mechanisms
D Furman, R Kosloff, F Dubnikova, SV Zybin, WA Goddard, N Rom, B Hirshberg, Y Zeiri
J Am Chem Soc
(2014)
136
First-Principles-Based Reaction Kinetics for Decomposition of Hot, Dense Liquid TNT from ReaxFF Multiscale Reactive Dynamics Simulations
N Rom, B Hirshberg, Y Zeiri, D Furman, SV Zybin, WAIII Goddard, R Kosloff
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
(2013)
117

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01223 336377