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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 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


Harveen Kaur | 2024 - 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.

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:

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

Undergraduates:

Alumni

Alex Ferreira - PhD Student - June 2021 - May 2025

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

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

2024/25

2023/24

2022/23

2021/22

2019/2020

2018/2019

2017/2018

2016/2017

2015/2016

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