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Biography

George Booth is a university reader in theoretical physics at King鈥檚 College London. The main focus of his research lies in computational electronic structure theory, with the development of a range of numerical tools to tackle correlated electron problems in both quantum chemistry and condensed matter.

He aims to work at the intersection of traditional chemistry and physics disciplines, with applications ranging from frustrated magnetism to theoretical spectroscopy and quantum computing. His group develop in a number of widely used simulation packages, and is an active member of national computational modelling consortia, including the Thomas Young Center and the Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub.

After completing his a MSci at Nottingham (2006), he studied for a PhD in computational chemistry at Cambridge university, where he developed novel stochastic algorithms for correlated electron problems.

After this, George was awarded a junior research fellowship at Trinity college, Cambridge, where his research branched into electronic problems in condensed matter. This JRF was intermitted for a postdoc at Princeton university in the US, before returning to Cambridge as a lecturer in 2013. On award of a Royal Society university research fellowship, he moved to King鈥檚 College London in 2014, and was promoted to the position of reader in 2019.

RSC affiliations

• Faraday standing committee, Faraday Discussions