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Recent grant successes allow expansion of S3RI postdoctoral positions

Published: 9 October 2018

S3RI is pleased to welcome a number of new postdoctoral researchers, following Professor Dave Woods winning three major research grants.

In April, Dr Sam Jackson joined us to work on the “CrystalCast” project, funded by the US Government and joint with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Public Health England (PHE) and the University of Manchester. Sam recently completed a PhD on history matching in computer experiments at the University of Durham. The CrystalCast project will develop and apply uncertainty quantification methods for disease spread and epidemiology models to facilitate fast visualisation and decision-making tools to assess intervention options for infectious outbreaks.

In September, we were joined by Dr Emily Matthews to work on the project “Combining chemical robotics and statistical methods to discover complex functional products”. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and joint with Chemical Engineers and Chemists from the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow, as part of this project Emily will develop new design of experiments methods for multi-stage studies in the manufacturing of complex chemical projects. In particular, use will be made earlier in the development cycle of covariates and process variables to enable the “manufacturability” of the chemical products to be assessed. Emily joins us from Dstl, having previously been a postdoc and PhD student in S3RI.

Finally, we will be joined in October by Dr Olga Egorova to work on another EPSRC-funded project, “Active learning for computational polymorph landscape analysis”, in collaboration with the School of Chemistry at Southampton. This project will develop new methods for the sequential design of computer experiments to identify robust optima of crystal structure energies. Describing these energy surfaces is key to understanding the formation of many drug-like crystals. Olga joins us from Amey Ltd, having previously completed her PhD in S3RI.

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