Dr. Alejandro Montoya
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Education:
Dr. Montoya completed his Ph.D in Chemical Sciences in 2002 at the Universidad de Antioquia -Colombia. He received the prestigious Sesqui Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Sydney (2004-2007). He was appointed Associated Lecturer in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney in 2007.
Research Interests:
Dr. Alejandro Montoya is an active researcher in the field of chemical kinetics and thermodynamics.
His interest lays in determining the properties of chemical species at an atomic level and to use this information for building thermodynamic and kinetic computational models. These models can then be used as a guide for process optimization and process design to maximize selectivity and minimise the formation of unwanted by-products.
Dr. Montoya is interested in:
- Microkinetic Modeling of Gas-Solid catalysed reactions
- Thermodynamic Analysis of phase equilibrium
- Coal combustion and gasification
- Structure-Reactivity relationships of chemical systems
Dr. Montoya has made significant contributions to the description of the mechanism of carbon oxidation processes. His work in this area has led to new methodological insights as well as to specific thermodynamic and kinetic predictions on previously unstudied chemical reaction systems. He has proposed new approaches for theoretically determining rate constants based on dynamic methods for carbon oxidation processes that have potential application in coal gasification and combustion process studies. He has also made original contributions to homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions of practical interest, including studies on methanol dehydrogenation on silver.
Publications:
- Montoya, Alejandro and Haynes, Brian. S. “Methanol and Methoxide decomposition on silver”. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111, 9867, 2007.
- Montoya, Alejandro and Haynes, Brian. S. “Reactions of Hydroxyl on the Topmost Layer of Ag(111): A Density Functional Theory Study” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111, 1333, 2007.
- Montoya, A.; Schlunke, A.; Haynes, B. S. “Reaction of Hydrogen with Ag(111). Binding States, Minimum Energy Paths, and Kinetics”. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110: 17145, 2006.