Andrew Christofferson

Dr. Andrew Christofferson

Senior Lecturer

Details

Research fields

  • 3407 Theoretical and computational chemistry

Academic positions

  • Research Fellow
  • RMIT University
  • School of Engineering/School of Science
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2012 – 2022
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing
  • Beijing, China
  • 2010 – 2011

Non-academic positions

  • Process Engineer
  • Semitool, Inc.
  • , United States
  • 2005 – 2005

Supervisor projects

  • Modelling the stability of biomolecules in ionic liquids
  • 6 May 2024
  • Protein solubility and stability in ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents
  • 22 Jan 2024
  • Biomolecular Interactions with Nanoparticles Investigating the Protein Corona and beyond
  • 22 Jan 2024
  • Developing Biomimetic Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Vehicles
  • 1 Dec 2023
  • Crystal structures and glass formation of ionic liquids
  • 16 Jan 2023
  • Solvation and Nanostructure in Liquid Metal Systems
  • 4 Jul 2022
  • Nanomaterial Interactions with Model Cell Membranes
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Nanomaterial interactions with model cell membranes
  • 18 Mar 2021
  • In silico explorations of gold-biomolecule interactions for the engineering of biomedical gold nanomaterials
  • 30 Apr 2014

Research interests

• Structure determination of novel materials
• Protein-protein and protein-nanoparticle interactions
• Application of quantum mechanics calculations, classical molecular dynamics simulations, and advanced sampling techniques to biological systems
• Force field parameterisation and comparison
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