Dr David Benoit

Dr David Benoit

Senior Lecturer in Molecular Physics and Astrochemistry

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • School of Natural Sciences

Summary

David was appointed lecturer at the University of Hull in 2011 and promoted to senior lecturer in 2014.

He previously led a research group in computational chemistry at the University of Ulm, Germany, from 2005.

This followed lectureships in physical chemistry at Queen Mary, University of London (2002-2003) and in computational chemistry at University College London (2003-2004), returning to Queen Mary towards the end of 2004.

David held a post-doctoral fellowship at the MPI-FKF in Stuttgart, Germany, working with Michele Parrinello, in 2000 before moving to the ETHZ Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Manno, Switzerland, in 2001.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Predicting the ages of galaxies with an artificial neural network

Hunt, L. J., Pimbblet, K. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2024). Predicting the ages of galaxies with an artificial neural network. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529(1), 479-498. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae479

Noise reduction in single-shot images using an auto-encoder

Bartlett, O. J., Benoit, D. M., Pimbblet, K. A., Simmons, B., & Hunt, L. (2023). Noise reduction in single-shot images using an auto-encoder. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 6318-6329. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad665

Stark Effect Control of the Scattering Properties of Plasmonic Nanogaps

Pagnotto, D., Muravitskaya, A., Benoit, D. M., Bouillard, J. S. G., & Adawi, A. M. (2023). Stark Effect Control of the Scattering Properties of Plasmonic Nanogaps. ACS Applied Optical Materials, 1(1), 500–506. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.2c00135

Bn2DT3A, a Chelator for 68Ga Positron Emission Tomography: Hydroxide Coordination Increases Biological Stability of [68Ga][Ga(Bn2DT3A)(OH)]−

Price, T. W., Renard, I., Prior, T. J., Kubíček, V., Benoit, D. M., Archibald, S. J., …Stasiuk, G. J. (2022). Bn2DT3A, a Chelator for 68Ga Positron Emission Tomography: Hydroxide Coordination Increases Biological Stability of [68Ga][Ga(Bn2DT3A)(OH)]−. Inorganic chemistry, 61(43), 17059–17067. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01992

A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics

Cross, T. M., Benoit, D. M., Pignatari, M., & Gibson, B. K. (2022). A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics. The Astrophysical journal, 925(1), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3976

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Pollutants and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - understanding gas-gas and gas-solid interactions towards a cleaner atmosphere ATMOS

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£80,054.00

Started

1 December 2021

Status

Ongoing

Project

Simulating the Vibrational Dynamics and Electronic Structure of Molecules with Quantum Computing

Funder

French Government

Grant

£0.00

Started

1 October 2023

Status

Ongoing

Project

Binding energy of biomolecules on ice-covered grains in the interstellar medium

Funder

Royal Astronomical Society

Grant

£1,200.00

Started

1 July 2018

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Astrophysics at the University of Hull

Funder

STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council

Grant

£704,947.00

Started

1 April 2018

Status

Complete

Project

STFC Introductory Astronomy School - 2021

Funder

STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council

Grant

£49,315.00

Started

1 April 2021

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Astrobiology

Molecular vibrational signatures in the interstellar medium

Chemical makeup of comets and asteroids

Quantum computing & machine learning

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