Dr. Arihant BHANDARI is a research fellow at the school of chemistry, university of Southampton. He is working as a part of the multi-scale modelling (MSM) project of the Faraday institution on the development of methods for atomic-scale simulation of electrochemical interfaces. He did his bachelor’s and doctoral study at the department of mechanical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.
Dr. Jacek DZIEDZIC is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton. He has been a developer in the ONETEP project since 2009. His main areas of expertise are implicit solvent models, hybrid functionals and QM/MM approaches.
Chris’s research focuses on the development of theory, algorithms and codes for quantum mechanical (QM) calculations from first principles on parallel computers. He co-founded the ONETEP program for large-scale quantum chemistry simulations. His work, rooted in fundamental science, addresses complex chemistry challenges like materials, catalysis, and drug design. Chris is involved with CCP9 and the UK Car-Parrinello Consortium, and he has authored 190+ publications in international journals. His research is supported by numerous organizations, including RCUK, the Royal Society, NSF, and industry partners like Boehringer Ingelheim, AWE, Johnson Matthey, and more.
Arash serves as the Director of the Thomas Young Centre at Imperial, the London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials and Molecules. He also sits on the Management Board of the Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub, which hosts the UK’s dedicated national Tier-2 HPC facility for materials and molecular modelling, and he is a Trustee of the Psi-k Charity and Network, a Europe-based, worldwide network of researchers working on the advancement of first-principles computational materials science.