Student Opportunities

Want to do research on a computer not in a lab?

Love spectroscopy, quantum mechanics and energy levels?

Feel constantly pulled between physics and chemistry?

Or perhaps you want to utilise and strengthen your maths, programming and/or data science skills by exploring exciting molecular science applications from interpreting NMR spectroscopy to helping find aliens on exoplanets?

If this sounds like you, you might like to join my research group at UNSW Chemistry in Sydney Australia; I love working with students of all stages from undergraduate to PhD students (and even high school students through the SciX program).

McKemmish_Sep2021.pdf

Projects current Sep 2021... If it is far later than this, I might be busy researching and not updating this, but if these sound interesting, email me (l.mckemmish@unsw.edu.au) and we can discuss what I am working on currently.

Interested students should:

  • check out My Research above and here to identify projects of potential interest;

  • look below on this page to consider the skills you can gain in my research group;

  • email me with a brief description of their background and what subjects you are most interested in researching and/or skills you are interested in learning.

I have projects with varying amounts of chemistry, physics, mathematics, programming and data science to suit students with a variety of backgrounds and interests. You may also choose to incorporate a component of observational astronomy or experimental spectroscopy with one of my collaborators.

As part of a research project with me, you can expect to develop improved transferable and scientific skills in some or all of:

  • Python

  • Command line interface (bash)

  • Expert user of quantum chemistry packages

  • Latex/Bibtex

  • Spectroscopy

  • Data science

  • Data presentation

  • Computational debugging

  • Literature Review

  • Googling

For more details of skills gained in research projects with me, please see Research Skills