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10 Facts About Erin Johnson

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Erin Johnson earned her PhD at Queen's University in 2007, working with Axel D Becke.

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Erin Johnson developed the exchange-hole dipole moment dispersion model, which describes intermolecular interactions.

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Erin Johnson's PhD focussed on improving the accuracy and efficiency of computational chemistry.

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Erin Johnson was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral fellow at Duke University with Yang Weitao from 2007 to 2010.

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Erin Johnson looked at the energy splitting between spin-states, connecting them to the ionisation potential and electron affinity.

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Erin Johnson joined the faculty of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California, Merced as an assistant professor in 2010.

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Erin Johnson was promoted to Full Professor at Dalhousie in 2018.

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Erin Johnson has applied her dispersion-corrected density functional theory methods to crystal structure prediction.

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Erin Johnson has worked on charge-transfer complexes and how charge is transferred between electron donors and electron acceptors.

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Erin Johnson published the book Density Functionals with Springer in 2015.