A copy of Alexandra Teodora Anghel's thesis entitled 'Surmounting Reaction Barriers: DFT studies of alkane dehydrogenation on Pt{110} (1X2) a PhD thesis submitted to Cambridge University and supervised by Mary Archer. There is an inscription dated April 2005 and copies of 2 papers entitled 'Pathways for Dissociative Methane Chemisorption on Pt {110}-(1X2)' and 'A Study of the Known and Hypothetical Crystal Structures of Pyridine: Why are there four molecules in the asymmetric unit cell'. Also included is correspondence from the University of Cambridge to Alexandra Anghel approving her Ph.D.