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Dr Felix Plasser serves as Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Loughborough University, where he also holds the role of Open Research Champion for the School of Science and Programme Leader for the Chemistry with Computing BSc and MChem degrees. He completed a BSc in Chemistry at the University of Technology Vienna in 2008, followed by an MSc in Chemistry at the University of Vienna in 2009. In 2012 he obtained his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Vienna, with a thesis on the computational study of the photophysics of interacting DNA nucleobases under the supervision of Professor Hans Lischka. Between 2013 and 2015 he undertook postdoctoral research at the Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, focusing on phosphorescent iridium complexes, and from 2015 to 2017 he continued postdoctoral work at the University of Vienna on nonadiabatic photodynamics under Professor Leticia Gonzalez. He joined Loughborough University in 2018 as Lecturer and progressed to Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry. His research centres on computational photochemistry, quantum chemical method development, excited-state wavefunction analysis, nonadiabatic dynamics simulations, photophysics and spectroscopy, functional molecules and organic electronics. He leads modules including Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Quanta, Investigative Computational Projects, Molecular Simulation and Bioinformatics, and Applied Quantum Chemistry, and supervises research projects in computational chemistry. Since 2026 he has served as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry and as a committee member of the RSC Spectroscopy and Dynamics Interest Group. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Austrian Chemists, and previously provided Nuffield Research Placements from 2020 to 2022. His contributions advance understanding in theoretical and computational chemistry through method development and application to molecular systems.