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Matteo Salvalaglio | Principal Investigator

Matteo is Professor of Molecular Systems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, which he joined in 09/2015. Matteo received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2011 from Politecnico di Milano, (Italy). From 2012 to 2015 he undertook postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Matteo is a member of the Thomas Young Centre and of the Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering.

Dr Lunna Li | 2020 - now

Lunna Li studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge during her undergraduate years. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge in 2017. Previously, she has worked at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include using classical MD simulations to study the structures and properties of various proteins. She also specializes in free energy calculations and solubility predictions. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and loves to visit art & science museums.

Dr Fabienne Bachtiger | 2023 - now

Fabienne Bachtiger gained her undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from the Open University. She then went on to complete her MSc in Analytical Sciences and PhD in Chemistry at the University of Warwick, graduating in 2023 under the supervision of Dr. Gabriele Sosso. Her current research looks at nucleation and growth events of molecular crystals with a focus towards developing new methods to extract nucleation rate parameters. In her spare time she is mostly running after her toddler, but given the chance she also loves to hike, visit new cities and go for early morning runs.

Dr Matteo Paloni | 2023 - now

Matteo Paloni received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2017 from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) with a thesis on methods for estimating binding free energies from MD simulations. From 2017 to 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Alessandro Barducci at the Centre de Biologie Structurale (CBS) in Montpellier (France), where he used multiscale molecular models to study the liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins and nucleic acids. His research at UCL includes the development of tools to perform and analyse systematically large sets of MD simulations. When not working, he enjoys reading and walking around the city.

Dr Louise Price | 2023 - now


Antoniu Bjola | 2020 - now

I am generally interested in Physics and Chemistry, especially when they fuse together at a molecular scale. In my undergraduate studies, I investigated the phase behaviour of heavy hydrocarbon mixtures and worked on a correlation between the residual entropy and the viscosity of a system. In my current research, I am occupied with enhanced molecular modelling techniques with applications to nucleation phenomena. I also enjoy playing basketball, travelling and hiking.

Florian Dietrich | 2021 - now

I enjoy working on interdisciplinary research combining Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science. I did my Bachelors degree in Chemistry at the TU Darmstadt where I decided to specialise in computational Chemistry. For my thesis, I worked on method development for coarse-graining approaches. I did my Masters in theoretical and computational Chemistry at Uppsala University where for my thesis I investigated ion diffusion in a crystalline electrolyte using machine learning potentials. In my free time, I enjoy doing martial arts and playing chess.

Alex Ferreira | 2021 - now

Alex obtained his MSci from Imperial College London in 2020, with a final project on the construction of chemical databases through text extraction. He now works on modelling the crystallizability of pharmaceutical molecules through a combination of molecular dynamics and data-science techniques. When not staring at a computer, he is probably staring at a book or a television instead.

Edgar Olehnovics | 2021 - now

My BSc background is in Pharmacology. During my MRes project at UCL, I investigated similarities and differences in dynamics and kinetics of four homologous beta-lactamase enzymes. In my spare time, I enjoy studying and implementing various machine learning techniques, especially in the context of pharmaceutically relevant systems. My current research is centred around enhanced molecular dynamics simulations, focusing on small-molecule crystalline systems.

Xinrui Cai | 2021 - now

Co-Supervised by Prof. Alberto Striolo

Xinrui studied Chemical Engineering at UCL, where she investigated the stochastic nature of nucleation in a colloidal system using atomistic simulation. Her current research focuses on uncovering the underlying mechanism of hydrate formation in the presence of additives using MD simulation. In her free time, she enjoys food, table tennis and Genshin Impact (for the time being).

Alex Moriarty | 2021 - now

Co-Supervised by Prof. Alberto Striolo

Alex graduated with an MEng in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London in 2021, completing a Master’s thesis on interpreting machine learning (ML) models for predicting materials properties. He continues to be fascinated by the power of ML for solving problems in science, and his PhD project investigates applying ML to surfactant design. He enjoys climbing, chess and creative coding.

Will Wood | 2022 - now

Co-Supervised by Prof. Sally Price

Visiting Researchers:

Dr Aaron Finney, Lecturer in Materials Science, University of Liverpool. Visiting Researcher 2023 - now

Francesco Serse, PhD candidate, Politecnico di Milano. Visiting Researcher 2023 - now

Undergraduates:

Alumni

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Dr Aaron Finney - Postdoctoral Researcher March 2019 - October 2023, next destination: Lecturer in Materials Science, University of Liverpool.

Ilaria Gimondi - PhD Student - Nov. 2015 - Mar. 2020, next destination: Education and Outreach Officer, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Cambridge, UK

Veselina Marinova - PhD Candidate - Jun. 2016 - Mar. 2020, next destination: Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. John Harding and Prof. Colin Freeman, Sheffield University

Loukas Kollias - PhD Candidate - Sept. 2016 - Jun. 2020, next destination: Postdoctoral researcher at Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory, US

Nicholas Francia - PhD Candidate - March. 2017 - Dec. 2021, next destination: Postdoctoral researcher, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Cambridge, UK

Visiting

Gioacchino Schifino - Visiting PhD Student, Università della Magna Graecia - 2023

Luigi Leanza - Visiting PhD student, Politecnico di Torino - 2022

Filippo Pinelli - Visiting PhD student, Politecnico di Milano - 2021

Raitis Bobrovs - Visiting Researcher Latvian Institute of Organic synthesis - 2019,2021,2022

Ioannis Vasiloupoulos - Visiting PhD student, ICT Prague - 2019

A Be̅rziņš - Visiting Researcher Latvian Institute of Organic synthesis - 2019

Matteo Paloni - Visiting PhD Student, Politecnico di Milano - 2016

Undergraduate Researchers

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2019/2020

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2015/2016

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