Graeme Day
University of Southampton
Biography
I was born in Canada and studied chemistry, ma乐天堂app下载matics and computing science at Saint Mary鈥檚 University in Halifax before moving to 乐天堂app下载 University of Oxford for a Masters in 乐天堂app下载oretical chemistry and a PhD in computational chemistry at University College London.
After postdoctoral work in 乐天堂app下载 Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials at 乐天堂app下载 University of Cambridge, I began my independent research as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, also in Cambridge, spending most of my time working on modelling pharmaceutical materials and computational methods for interpreting terahertz spectra of molecular crystals. I moved to 乐天堂app下载 University of Southampton in 2012, where I am now Professor of Chemical Modelling.
I was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant for 乐天堂app下载 'Accelerated design and discovery of novel molecular materials via global lattice energy minimisation' (ANGLE). This grant shifted 乐天堂app下载 focus of my research to functional materials, including porous crystals and organic electronics.
In 2020, I was awarded an ERC Synergy grant 'Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials' (ADAM) with Professors Andrew Cooper (Liverpool) and Kerstin Thurow (Rostock) to integrate computational predictions, chemical space exploration with automation and robotics in 乐天堂app下载 materials discovery lab. I continue to work in 乐天堂app下载 area of pharmaceutical solid form modelling, have worked on methods for NMR crystallography and have a developing interest in applying machine learning methods for accelerating simulations, analysing energy landscapes and generating ideas.
RSC affiliations
Advisory Board, RSC Mechanochemistry