Erin R. Johnson

Education:

• BSc: Carleton University
  
• PhD: Queen's University
  
• PDF: Duke University

Research interests:

Development and applications of density-functional theory for study of electronic structure. Current applications include non-covalent interactions, molecular crystals, layered solids, electrides, and organometallic complexes.

Selected awards and honours

• 2019 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
• 2018 Dirac Medal 
  
• 2018 Tom Ziegler Award
  
• 2017-2018 Faculty of Science Killam Prize

Selected publications:

• L. M. LeBlanc, S. G. Dale, C. R. Taylor, A. D. Becke, G. M. Day, E. R. 
  Johnson, Pervasive delocalisation error causes spurious proton transfer 
  in organic acid‐base co‐crystals, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 14906-14910 
  (2018).
• S. G. Dale, E. R. Johnson, Theoretical descriptors of electrides, 
  J. Phys. Chem. A 122, 9371-9391 (2018).
• E. Walters, M. Mohebifar, E. R. Johnson, C. N. Rowley, Evaluating the 
  London dispersion coefficients of protein force fields using the 
  exchange-hole dipole moment model, J. Phys. Chem. B 122, 6690-6701 (2018).
• A. D. Becke, S. G. Dale, E. R. Johnson, Correct charge transfer in CT 
  complexes from the Becke'05 density functional, J. Chem. Phys. 148, 
  211101 (2018).
• S. G. Dale, A. Otero de la Roza, E. R. Johnson, Pressure-induced 
  isostructural antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic transition in an organic 
  electride, J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 12742-12747 (2018).