Graeme Day
University of Southampton
Biography
I was born in Canada and studied chemistry, mathematics and computing science at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax before moving to the University of Oxford for a Masters in theoretical chemistry and a PhD in computational chemistry at University College London.
After postdoctoral work in the Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials at the University of Cambridge, I began my independent research as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, also in Cambridge, spending most of my time working on modelling pharmaceutical materials and computational methods for interpreting terahertz spectra of molecular crystals. I moved to the University of Southampton in 2012, where I am now Professor of Chemical Modelling.
I was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant for the 'Accelerated design and discovery of novel molecular materials via global lattice energy minimisation' (ANGLE). This grant shifted the focus of my research to functional materials, including porous crystals and organic electronics.
In 2020, I was awarded an ERC Synergy grant 'Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials' (ADAM) with Professors Andrew Cooper (Liverpool) and Kerstin Thurow (Rostock) to integrate computational predictions, chemical space exploration with automation and robotics in the materials discovery lab. I continue to work in the area of pharmaceutical solid form modelling, have worked on methods for NMR crystallography and have a developing interest in applying machine learning methods for accelerating simulations, analysing energy landscapes and generating ideas.
RSC affiliations
Advisory Board, RSC Mechanochemistry