Tom Mason

Melbourne, Australia ยท tom.mason14@gmail.com

PhD Student at Monash University looking at chemistry through code.

Working on polymer simulations.

Skills

Languages & Operating Systems
  • Python
  • Git
  • Linux
  • Bash
  • LaTeX
  • Markdown
  • R
Tools
  • SSH
  • RSync
  • Jupyter
  • Pandoc
  • High Performance Computing

Publications

Paper - Predicting Entropic Effects of Water Mixing with Ionic Liquids

Computational studies into the interactions of water with ionic liquids - fully ab initio study

October 2020

Experience

Research Assistant- Synthetic Chemistry

PepsiCo Ltd, Leicester, UK

Synthesis and detection of harmful substances in foods via GCMS methods. Involved solvent-solvent extraction.

July 2018 - November 2018

Research Assistant- Engineering

Warwick Manufacturing Group, Coventry, UK

Investigating recrystallisation kinetics of steel alloys, using Python and COMSOL multiphysics software.

See github repo here.

July 2017 - October 2017

Education

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

PhD
Computational chemistry project, focusing on simulation of polymer membranes and improving current methods to predict desalination. I am also trying to find materials that may offer increased performance at a lower cost and possible biopolymers that perform the same function. Machine learning will be incorporated. Part of a collaboration between A. Prof. Katya Pas at Monash and Prof. Benny Freeman at the University of Texas at Austin.
2018 - Present

Warwick University, Coventry, UK

MChem
Chemistry with an emphasis on physical chemistry and polymer science. Masters project undertaken with Prof. Stefan Bon, involving the sythesis and characterisation of supramolecular functional low molecular weight polyTHF. Rheological testing was performed.
2014 - 2018