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Professor Graeme Day

Professor Graeme Day

Professor of Chemical Modelling

Research interests

  • crystal structure prediction
  • materials discovery
  • computational chemistry

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Email: g.m.day@soton.ac.uk

Address: B29, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • crystal structure prediction
  • materials discovery
  • computational chemistry
  • NMR crystallography
  • energy landscapes

Current research

His research concerns the development of computational methods for modelling the organic molecular solid state. A key focus of this work is the prediction of crystal structures from first principles; his research group applies these methods in a range of applications, including pharmaceutical solid form screening, NMR crystallography and computer-guided discovery of functional materials.

Graeme is the author or co-author of over 125 publications, including 5 book chapters. He serves on the advisory board for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, is on the steering committee of the UK Materials Chemistry High End Computing Consortium and is a member of the EPSRC peer review college. Graeme was awarded the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists in 2006 and the Molecular Graphics & Modelling Society, Silver Jubilee Prize in 2008, both for his contributions to crystal structure prediction methodologies.  His current research is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the European Research Council (ERC) and a range of industrial collaborations. He leads the ERC Synergy Grant ADAM – Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials, which started in 2020, combining predictive computational methods, automation of materials discovery and robotics.

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