Group Members
meet the group, left-to-right:
Rebecca Clements; Joshua Dickman; Eleanor Soper; James Bramley; Jennie Martin; Graeme Day; Jay Johal; Joe Glover; Ramón Cuadrado; Patrick Butler; Chris Taylor. (missing: Joe Arnold) photo: May, 2022.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Lucia Gigli
Working on the ERC project ADAM (Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials) "Active Learning for Computational Polymorph Landscape Analysis", a collaboration with Prof. Andrew Cooper (Liverpool) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Thurow (Rostock).
Dr James Brixey
Currently working on the EPSRC funded Programme Grant "Digital navigation of chemical space for function", a collaboration with Liverpool and Imperial College London.
Dr Chris Taylor
Currently working on the EPSRC funded project "A Supramolecular Gel Phase Crystallisation Strategy", a collaboration with Prof. Jon Steed (Durham).
Developing crystal structure prediction methodologies, and applications to polymorph screening of pharmaceutical molecules.
Previously working on the ERC ANGLE project developing crystal structure prediction of multi-component materials.
Dr Joe Glover (2020 - )
Working on the ERC project ADAM (Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials) "Active Learning for Computational Polymorph Landscape Analysis", a collaboration with Prof. Andrew Cooper (Liverpool) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Thurow (Rostock).
Dr Ramón Cuadrado (2020 - )
Working on the ERC project ADAM (Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials) "Active Learning for Computational Polymorph Landscape Analysis", a collaboration with Prof. Andrew Cooper (Liverpool) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Thurow (Rostock).
PhD Students
Patrick Butler (2021 - )
Developing computational methods for characterising crystal energy landscapes
Funded by a University of Southampton Presidential Scholarship
Jay Johal (2021 - )
Incorporating crystal structure prediction into molecular discovery.
Working on the ERC project ADAM (Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials) "Active Learning for Computational Polymorph Landscape Analysis", a collaboration with Prof. Andrew Cooper (Liverpool) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Thurow (Rostock).
Jennifer Martin (2021 - )
The Generalised Convex Hull for the Identification of Synthesisable Predicted Materials
Funder by the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design. co-supervised by Prof. Michele Ceriotti (EPFL)
Eleanor Soper (2021 - )
IComputational Modelling of Crystal Sponges
co-supervised by Prof. Simon Coles, in collaboration with Merck
Joe Arnold (2020 - )
Computational screening and structure prediction of energetic materials
Funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
James Bramley (2020 - )
Crystal Structure Prediction: Predicting Synthesizable Polymorphs
Funded by an EPSRC Industrial CASE studentship with Johnson Matthey.
Rebecca Clements (2020 - )
Machine learning models for crystal structure prediction
Funded by the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling
Joshua Dickman (2020 - )
Including synthesisability measures in computer-guided materials discovery
School of Chemistry funded studentship and teaching assistantship
Chi Cheng (2018 - 2022)
Developing evolutionary methods for the design of molecular materials.
Funded by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences.
publications:
Evolutionary chemical space exploration for functional materials: computational organic semiconductor discovery, Chi Y. Cheng, Josh E. Campbell and Graeme M. Day, Chemical Science, 11, 4922-4933 (2020)
Shiyue Yang (2018 - 2021)
Developing advanced methods for global exploration of lattice energy surfaces.
Funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council.
publications:
Exploration and optimization in crystal structure prediction: combining basin hopping with quasi-random sampling, Shiyue Yang and Graeme M. Day, J. Chem. Theory Comput., (2021) 17, 3, 1988-1999.
Global analysis of crystal energy landscapes: applying the threshold algorithm to molecular crystal structures, Shiyue Yang and Graeme M. Day, ChemRXiv.
Victor Do Nascimento
Developing methods to predict the formation of crystalline hydrates.
Part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences. Funded by Pfizer and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
Alumni
PhD students
David McDonagh (2020) - Fragment-Based Energy Models and Machine Learning Methods for the Computational Study of Organic Molecular Crystals
Jonas Nyman - Computational Predictions of Structures, Inclusion Behaviour and Properties of Organic Molecular Crystals
Joshua Campbell - Crystal Structure Prediction of Organic Semiconductors
Thomas Gee - Incorporating Molecular Flexibility and Conformational Variability into Crystal Structure Prediction
Hugh Thompson (University of Cambridge) - Extending Crystal Structure Prediction Methods towards Flexible Molecules
Edward Pyzer Knapp (University of Cambridge) - Exploring the Crystal Energy Landscapes of Porous Molecular Crystals
Daniele Tomerini (University of Cambridge) - A Computational Anaysis of the Vibrational Absorption of Molecular Solids in the Terahertz Range
Eloisa Angeles (University of Cambridge) - Computational Prediction of Hydrate Formation in Organic Crystal Structures
Katarzyna Hejczyk (University of Cambridge) - Application of Crystal Structure Prediction to Salts and Cocrystals
Aurora Cruz Cabeza (University of Cambridge) - On the Prediction, Rationalisation and Discovery of New Crystal Forms
postdoc alumni
Dr Peter Spackman
Dr Olga Egorova
Dr Roohollah Hafizi
Dr Angeles Pulido
Dr Jack Yang
Dr David McMahon
Dr David Case
Dr Sridhar Neelamraju
Dr Julien Lejeune
Dr Peter Bygrave
Dr Tim Cooper
Dr Marta Dudek (visiting researcher)