Dr Taye Demissie is a Senior Lecturer in Physical and Computational Chemistry at the University of Botswana. He has been teaching physical and computational chemistry at Dilla University, Hawassa University, Medco Biomedical College, Addis Ababa University, and Adama Science and Technology University (all in Ethiopia). Dr Demissie was also training university lecturers on how to use computational chemistry tools to solve chemical problems. After doing his PhD in Physical Chemistry/Computational Chemistry (funded by European Union) at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, Dr Demissie was a postdoctoral researcher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway for more than 5 years (funded by the Research Council of Norway), and at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague for one year (funded by European Union). Dr Demissie has published more than 55 research papers in high-impact-factor journals. He describes himself as both physical and computational chemist. His current research areas include (not limited) relativistic NMR, EPR, and pNMR calculations; computational studies of organic and inorganic reaction mechanisms; supramolecular chemistry; computational studies of absorption, emission, Raman, Raman optical activity, electronic and vibrational circular dichroism, and magnetic circular dichroism; computational electrochemistry; and CO2 activation and reduction to valuable organic compounds and drug discovery (both from natural products, and p-block and transition metal complexes). Dr Demissie is also interested and passionate about introducing computational chemistry to high school students as well as increasing public understanding of science. He is also actively engaged in organising Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) festivals in Botswana. List of publications can be accessed from https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=5FVFjwsAAAAJ&hl=en
