
I graduated with a first class degree in Natural Sciences (2000) and a PhD in Condensed Matter Theory (2004), both from the University of Cambridge. Before joining Imperial College London in 2007 I was a Junior Research Fellow in Cambridge and a post-doctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I’m the Associate Head of Department (Education) in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London; I sit on the Management Board of the Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub, which hosts the UK’s dedicated national Tier-2 HPC facilities (first Thomas and currently Young) for materials and molecular modelling; and I’m Chair of the Board of Trustees of Psi-k, a Europe-based, worldwide network of researchers working on the advancement of first-principles computational materials science.
In my spare time I enjoy tennis, hiking and learning Russian.
See my profile on Google Scholar and ResearcherID.
Some genealogical fun
Here is our group’s lineage (with thanks to the Mathematics Genealogy Project and Physics Tree). Nobel prize winners are indicated by an asterisk.
- N Bowditch (MA 1802, Harvard)
- B Peirce (BA 1829, Harvard)
- J Lovering (AB 1833, Harvard)
- J Trowbridge (SD 1873, Harvard)
- WC Sabine (Harvard)
- PW Bridgman* (PhD 1908, Harvard)
- EC Kemble (PhD 1917, Harvard)
- JH van Vleck* (PhD 1922, Harvard)
- PW Anderson* (PhD 1949, Harvard)
- JC Inkson (PhD 1972, Cambridge)
- MC Payne (PhD 1985, Cambridge)
- AA Mostofi (PhD 2004, Cambridge)