Gil C. Claudio, PhD
Physical Chemistry
Professor
Director, Materials Science and Engineering Program
Email: gcclaudio@up.edu.ph
Office Room and Phone No.: T302, Local 3660
Lab Room and Phone No.: R213-214, Local 3674
Research Laboratory: Materials Calculations and Simulations (MatCalcS)
Education & Background
| Undergraduate | BS Chemistry, Ateneo de Manila University, 1990 |
| Graduate | PhD Chemistry, University of Houston, 2003 MS Chemistry, Ateneo de Manila University, 1997 MS Finance, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2017 |
| Postdoctoral & Visiting Scholar Fellowships | Visiting Researcher, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 2018 to Jan 2019 Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, Nov 2007 to Mar 2010 |
| Previous Employment & Appointments | Acting Director, Institute of Chemistry UPD, Aug-Nov 2020 Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, Institute of Chemistry UPD, Jan 2019 to Jul 2020 |
Teaching
| Chem 16: General Chemistry I |
| Chem 105: Mathematical Methods for Chemistry |
| Chem 153: Physical Chemistry: Foundations of Chemical Thermodynamics |
| Chem 156: Introduction to Quantum Chemistry |
| Chem 235: Theoretical Organic Chemistry |
| Chem 250: Chemical Thermodynamics |
| Chem 251: Statistical Thermodynamics |
| Chem 255: Advanced Quantum Dynamics |
Research
Research Focus
Materials Calculations and Simulations
Our lab is interested in the following research areas: molecular dynamics, electronic structure calculation, computational chemistry, polymer physics, energy transfer, organic optoelectronic semiconductors, and hydrogels.
Selected Publications
(1) S. J. L. P. Perez and G. C. Claudio. Molecular dynamics simulations of two double- helical hexamer fragments of iota-carrageenan in aqueous solution. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 2020, 98, 107588.
(2) K. K. S. Custodio, G. C. Claudio and R. B. Nellas. Structural Dynamics of Neighboring Water Molecules of N-Isopropylacrylamide Pentamer. ACS Omega 2020, 5, 1408-1413.
(3) K. Y. Kue, G. C. Claudio and C.-P. Hsu. Hamiltonian-Independent Generalization of the Fragment Excitation Difference Scheme. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2018, 14, 1304-1310.
(4) Gil C. Claudio, K. Kremer and C. Holm. Comparison of a Hydrogel Model to a Poisson-Boltzmann Cell Model. Journal of Chemical Physics 2009, 131, 094903.
(5) G. C. Claudio and E. R. Bittner. Excitation Transfer in Aggregated and Linearly Confined Poly-(p-phenylene vinylene) Chains. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2003, 107, 7092.