Associate Professor Junming Ho

Fields of Research (FoR)

Computational chemistry, Physical organic chemistry, Catalysis and mechanisms of reactions

Biography

Junming Ho is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and the Australian National University. He was an A*STAR International Research Fellow at Yale (USA) and a research scientist in the Agency for Science, Research and Technology (Singapore). In 2017, he joined the School of Chemistry at UNSW where he is currently an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow.

My Grants

ARC Discovery Project (DP260104243) - Can...view more

My Grants

ARC Discovery Project (DP260104243) - Can artificial enzymes be more versatile than natural enzymes?

ARC Future Fellowship (FT240100584) - Taking quantum chemistry from vacuum to the real world

ARC Discovery Project (DP210102698) - Understanding how nanoconfinement can enhance electrochemical reactions

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE160100807) - Anion transporters as novel therapeutic agents

My Qualifications

PhD (ANU)

BSc Hons I, University Medal (ANU)

BSc (UWA)

My Awards

ARC Future Fellowship (2025-2028)

UNSW Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2023)

RACI Physical Chemistry Lectureship (2022)

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2016-2020)

Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professorship, KU Leuven (2016)

A*STAR International Fellowship (2013)

RACI Cornforth Medal (2012)

My Research Activities

My research is focused on the development and application of computational chemistry simulations to understand and predict the behaviour of molecules. This insight is crucial for coming up with better ways to synthesis valuable chemicals such as drugs or materials. Specific topics of interest:

Solvent modelling
Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods
Computer-aided drug design
Catalysis

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

physical chemistry

computational chemistry

organic chemistry

molecular dynamics simulation

solvation

Currently supervising

Nur Afiqah Ahmad (PhD)
Haedam Mun (PhD)
Yuhong Jiang (PhD)
Andrew Brahms (MRes)

My Teaching

I am a passionate science educator and have taught a range of chemistry courses across different levels. I am also involved in the development of new educational resources, including novel laboratory and workshop materials. I contribute to the chemical education literature through using computational chemistry simulations to enhance our pedagogical content knowledge of challenging chemistry concepts.

CHEM1031/1051 - Higher Chemistry 1A: Atoms, Molecules and Energy

CHEM2041 - Analytical Chemistry: Essential Methods

CHEM3011 - Quantum Nature of Molecules

CHEM3051 - Medicinal Organic Chemistry

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