Staff Profiles

5) Higher Diploma, Addis Ababa University (2020)

4) PhD, Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (2009-2013)

3) Advanced Diploma, Jimma University (2005-2007)

2) MSc, Physical Chemistry, Addis Ababa University (2005-2007)

1) BEd, Chemistry, Bahir Dar University (1996-2000)

Dr Taye is a Senior Lecturer in Physical and Computational Chemistry. 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 Taye was also training university lecturers on how to use computational chemistry tools to solve chemical problems. After doing his PhD (funded by European Union), Dr Taye 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). He has published more than 50 research papers in high-impact-factor journals. Dr Taye describes himself as both physical and computational chemist. His current research areas include (not only these) 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, vibrational circular dichroism, and magnetic circular dichroism; computational electrochemistry; and CO2 activation and reduction to valuable organic compounds. Dr Taye is also interested and passionate about introducing computational chemistry to high school students as well as increasing public understanding of science.

Quantum Chemistry (Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses)

Computational Chemistry (Postgraduate course)

Physical Chemistry (Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses)

Statistical Mechanics/Statistical Thermodynamics (Postgraduate course)

Molecular Spectroscopy (Postgraduate course)

Computational Supramolecular Chemistry (Postgraduate course)

General Chemistry (Undergraduate courses)

Research Methods (Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses)

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, vibrational circular dichroism, and magnetic circular dichroism

Computational electrochemistry

Computational organic chemistry 

CO2 activation and reduction to valuable organic compounds

Molecular property calculations

Computational studies of organic and inorganic reaction mechanisms

Computational studies of supermolecules

Computational spectroscopy

Computational organic chemistry 

CO2 activation and reduction to valuable organic compounds

Mechanistic Studies of the Catalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO: Efficient CO-Releasing Si- and Ge-Based Catalysts

TB Demissie, JM Kessete, ACS Omega (2022)

Novel Vanadium(IV) and Cobalt(II) Complexes

T Damena, D Zeleke, T Desalegn, TB Demissie et al. ACS Omega (2022)

Origins of Optical Activity in an Oxo-Helicene: Experimental and Computational Studies

TB Demissie, MS Sundar, K Thangavel, et al., ACS Omega 6, 3, 2420–2428 (2021)

Computational mechanistic insights into hafnium catalyzed CO2 activation and reduction

JM Kessete, TB Demissie, AM Mohammed, Molecular Physics, e2003456, 1-10 (2021)

Pharmacokinetics and drug-likeness of antidiabetic flavonoids: Molecular docking and DFT study

M Bitew, T Desalegn, TB Demissie, A Belayneh, et al. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0260853 (2021)

Synthesis, antibacterial and antioxidant activities of Thiazole-based Schiff base derivatives

F Lemilemu, M Bitew, TB Demissie, et al, BMC Chemistry 15 (1), 1-18 (2021)

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