1999-2003  Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
1995-1998  B.Sc. (Hons 1^st Class), Department of Chemistry, University of Queensland
1990-1994  Senior Certificate, Atherton State High School

The synthesis and characterisation of large polynuclear clusters using solvothermal techniques.

David Spichiger, Graham Carver, Christopher Dobe, Jesper Bendix, Philip L. W. Tregenna-Piggott, Roland Meier and Gernot Zahn
Electronic Raman Transitions from the Vanadium(III) hexa-aqua cation, guanidinium vanadium sulphate
Chem. Phys. Lett. 337, 391-397 (2001)     

Reto Basler, Philip L. W.Tregenna-Piggott, Hanspeter Andres, Christopher Dobe, Hans-Ulrich Güdel, Stefan Janssen and Garry J. McIntyre
Magnetic Excitations of CsMn(SO₄)₂·12D₂O, Measured by Inelastic Neutron Scattering
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 3377-3378 (2001)      Abstract     

Christopher Dobe, Hans-Peter Andres, Philip L. W. Tregenna-Piggott, Susanne Mossin, Høgni Weihe and Stefan Janssen
Variable Temperature Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of Chromium(II) Tutton Salt: Manifestation of the ⁵Ee Jahn-Teller Effect
Chem. Phys. Lett. 362, 387-396 (2002)     

Christopher Dobe, Graham Carver, Hans-Beat Bürgi, Philip L. W. Tregenna-Piggott, Garry J. McIntyre, Maria A. Augustyniak-Jablokow and Mark J. Riley
Low-Temperature Single-Crystal Raman and Neutron-Diffraction Study of the Hydrogenous Ammonium Copper(II) Tutton Salt and the Deuterated Analogue in the Metastable State
Inorg. Chem. 42, 8524-8533 (2003)     

R. Vogel, C. Dobe, A. Whittaker, G. Edwards, J. D. Riches, M. Harvey, M. Trau and P. Meredith
Postsynthesis Stabilization of Free-standing Mesoporous Silica Films
Langmuir 20, 2908-2914 (2004)     

Christopher Dobe, Christopher Noble, Graham Carver, Philip L. W. Tregenna-Piggott, Garry J. McIntyre, Anne-Laure Barra, Antonia Neels, Stefan Janssen and Fanni Juranyi
Electronic and Molecular Structure of High-Spin d⁴ Complexes: Experimental and Theoretical Study of the [Cr(D₂O)₆]²⁺ Cation in Tutton's Salts
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 16639-16652 (2004)     

O. Waldmann, C. Dobe, H. Mutka, A. Furrer and H. U. Güdel
Néel-Vector Tunneling in Antiferromagnetic Molecular Clusters
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 057202/1-4 (2005)      Abstract     

O. Waldmann, C. Dobe, S. T. Ochsenbein, H. U. Güdel and I. Sheikin
Field-Induced Magnetoelastic Instabilities in Antiferromagnetic Molecular Wheels
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027206/1-4 (2006)      Abstract     

David M. Low, Gopalan Rajaraman, Madeleine Helliwell, Grigore Timco, Joris van Slageren, Roberta Sessoli, Stefan T. Ochsenbein, Roland Bircher, Christopher Dobe, Oliver Waldmann, Hans-Ulrich Güdel, Mark A. Adams, Eliseo Ruiz, Santiago Alvarez and Eric J. L. McInnes
A Family of Ferro- and Antiferromagnetically Coupled Decametallic Chromium(III) Wheels
Chem. Eur. J. 12, 1385-1396 (2006)      Abstract     

Roland Bircher, Grégory Chaboussant, Chris Dobe, Hans U. Güdel, Stefan T. Ochsenbein, Andreas Sieber and Oliver Waldmann
Single-Molecule Magnets Under Pressure
Adv. Funct. Mater. 16, 209-220 (2006)      Abstract     

O. Waldmann, G. Carver, C. Dobe, D. Biner, A. Sieber, H. U. Güdel, H. Mutka and J. Ollivier
Magnetic relaxation in the single-molecule magnet Mn₁₂ac
ILL Annual Report 2005, 22-23 (2006)      Abstract     

O. Waldmann, C. Dobe, H. U. Güdel and H. Mutka
Quantum dynamics of the Néel vector in the antiferromagnetic molecular wheel CsFe₈
Phys. Rev. B 74, 054429/1-12 (2006)      Abstract     

Oliver Waldmann, Graham Carver, Chris Dobe, Andreas Sieber, Hans U. Güdel and Hannu Mutka
Direct Identification of the Minority and Majority Species in the Single-Molecule Magnet Mn₁₂-Acetate by Inelastic Neutron Scattering
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 1526-1527 (2007)      Abstract     

J. Dreiser, O. Waldmann, C. Dobe, G. Carver, S. T. Ochsenbein, A. Sieber, H. U. Güdel, J. van Duijn, J. Taylor and A. Podlesnyak
Quantized antiferromagnetic spin waves in the molecular Heisenberg ring CsFe₈
Phys. Rev. B 81, 024408/1-8 (2010)      Abstract                 

Jan Dreiser, Oliver Waldmann, Graham Carver, Christopher Dobe, Hans-Ulrich Güdel, Høgni Weihe and Anne-Laure Barra
High-Frequency Electron-Spin-Resonance Study of the Octanuclear Ferric Wheel CsFe₈
Inorg. Chem. 49, 8729-8735 (2010)      Abstract                 

By popular demand, the OH&S talk I gave is here as a pdf file:   OHS.pdf