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Prof 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


Dr Matteo Paloni | 2023 - now


Dr Louise Price | 2023 - now


Louise studied for a B.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Liverpool, and followed it with a Ph.D. in Chemistry at UCL under the supervision of Professor Ivan Parkin.  She started on the CPOSS project at its commencement in 2003, as the project’s administrator.  Over the years and many different projects, she has carried out many Crystal Structure Prediction searches, including some as part of industrial collaborations.  She has maintained the CPOSS Database which stores all the searches by all group members over the years. Outside work, she has a teenage daughter and enjoys learning as much as she teaches her.  They both enjoy science fiction and fantasy literature and art and crafts, but in totally different ways.

Harveen Kaur | 2024 - now


Samia Noor | 2026 - now


Visiting Researchers:

Giovanni Valenti (Politecnico di Torino)

Dr Emmanuele Parisi (Politecnico di Torino)

Dr Dang Cam Tu Phan (Marie Curie Fellow, Politecnico di Milano)

Prof Elena Simone (Politecnico di Torino)

Prof Antonio Buffo (Politecnico di Torino)

Undergraduates:

Yeni Oduwaiye Summer Research Intern

Alumni

Will Wood - PhD Student - September 2022 - May 2026 next destination: []

Edgar Olehnovics - PhD Student - September 2021 - March 2026 next destination: Avantgarde Materials Simulation

Alex Moriarty - PhD Student - September 2021 - November 2025 next destination: Plasma Data Scientist @ Quantemol

Xinrui Cai - PhD Student - September 2021 - July 2025 next destination: [biotech startup in Singapore]

Antoniu Bjola - PhD Student - September 2020 - July 2025

Alex Ferreira - PhD Student - June 2021 - May 2025 next destination: [trainee patent attorney at Mewburn Ellis]

Florian Dietrich - PhD Student - June 2021 - May 2025, next destination: Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Parrinello, IIT Genova (IT)

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

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

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

Visiting

Giuseppe Prenesti, Visiting PhD student, CNR Rende (ITA). 2025

Timo Schneider - Visiting PhD Student, ETH Zurich. 2025

Francesco Serse - Visiting PhD Student, Politecnico di Milano. 2023, 2024

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

2025/26

2024/25

2023/24

2022/23

2021/22

2019/2020

2018/2019

2017/2018

2016/2017

2015/2016

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