Personal statement
I am a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Stratchlyde. I was born in London, but grew up in Cumbria in north west England. After obtaining a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield, I worked as a synthesis chemist for Norbrook Laboratories before reading my PhD in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Between 2008 and 2011, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark and then at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. In 2012 I was awarded a Marie Curie Research Fellowship and returned to the UK to join the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde. I moved to my current position in the Department of Chemistry in February 2014.
Research interests
The main focus of my research is the development and application of molecular simulation and molecular informatics methods to solve industrially relevant problems at the interface between biochemistry and chemical physics. Recent examples have included the design of an enzyme for use in food manufacturing (in collaboration with Chr. Hansen A/S) and the development of new methods for computational drug discovery using the Integral Equation Theory of Molecular Liquids (in collaboration with AstraZeneca).
Professional activities
- ScotCHEM 2015
- Organiser
- 26/6/2015
- Computational Biomolecular Design using the Integral Equation Theory of Molecular Liquids: from Drug Discovery to Bionanotechnology
- Contributor
- 27/4/2015
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (Journal)
- Guest editor
- 1/1/2015
- WE-Heraeus Seminar on "Exploring Solvation Science"
- Participant
- 27/10/2014
- Modelling Molecules and Materials – M3 MGMS Meeting
- Participant
- 20/8/2014
- 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
- Speaker
- 10/8/2014
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Projects
- A novel blood test for the early diagnosis of cancer and for pro-active health screening (High Growth Spin Out Phase 2)
- Baker, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator)
- Period 03-May-2017 - 02-Nov-2018
- A novel blood test for the early diagnosis of cancer and for pro-active health screening.
- Baker, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator)
- Period 03-May-2016 - 03-Aug-2017
- Bridging the Gap Grant - In silico to in clinic-o
- Baker, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator) Hunt, Neil (Co-investigator)
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- Period 02-Mar-2015 - 02-Jun-2015
- Fast and Accurate Predictions of Physical-Chemical Properties of Bioactive Molecules
- Palmer, David (Academic)
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- Period 01-May-2014
- BTG: Developing a new class of biomimetic functional surface
- Palmer, David (Academic) Lau, K. H. Aaron (Academic)
- This experimental-computational project will investigate peptoids, a new class of peptide-inspired polymers, as novel biomimetic surface coatings. Although peptides are remarkable natural polymers that can perform complex biological functions, it is difficult to design or predict their properties. Peptoids mimic the chemical structure and functionality of peptides but have simplified chemical synthesis and unprecedented properties. As a first step, we aim to design model peptoids that can adsorb on surfaces by studying the solubility of peptoids, a fundamental property that determines their physical behaviour and biofunctionality. This will pave the way to fabricating highly functional materials for advanced coating applications.
- Period 17-Mar-2014 - 15-Aug-2014
- Investigating the accuracy of sublimation free energy prediction by ab initio and semi-empirical methods.
- Palmer, David (Principal Investigator) Fedorov, Maxim (Principal Investigator)
- This project aims to investigate how accurately sublimation free energy (ΔGsub) of small to medium sized organic molecules can be predicted by theoretical methods. We plan to use ab initio calculations from CASTEP and CRYSTAL09 to compare with lattice simulations, the latter performed in-house. Our motivation for the project is to improve our ability to predict solution free energy (ΔGsolv) (and solubility) from a thermodynamic cycle.
- Period 01-Jan-2013
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Address
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Thomas Graham Building
Thomas Graham Building
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