2017 Fellow Berhane Temelso

Computational Chemistry Berhane Temelso is currently a computational chemistry research scientist working at Furman University. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology and B.A. in physics from Berea College. His Ph.D. work explored the ability of the most rigorous first-principles computational methods to reproduce molecular properties derived from experiment. His current research is mainly focused on the application of efficient computational methods to understand the structure and dynamics of hydrogen-bonded systems ranging from water clusters to atmospheric aerosols. A large part of his efforts are devoted to understanding the effect of atmospheric aerosols on the global radiation balance and ways in which they can be used to engineer solutions to mitigate climate change. Berhane is an author on early papers on hydrogen abstraction and donation tools for the mechanosynthesis of diamondoids published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.