Stephen J. Paddison
Stephen J. Paddison is currently the Gibson Endowed Professor of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received a B.Sc.(Honours) in Chemical Physics and a Ph.D. in Physical/Theoretical Chemistry (1996) from the University of Calgary, Canada. He was, subsequently, a postdoctoral fellow and staff member in the Materials Science Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee in 2007. His research work has focused on elucidating fundamental molecular-level understanding of polymer electrolyte membranes and electrocatalysts. He employs a multiscale approach to materials modeling with methodologies including high level (DFT) electronic structure calculations, ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD), classical molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM), dissipative particle dynamics, and equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.
