Computational (ML/AI)

Abigail Knight is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research group works at the interface of chemical biology and polymer science, developing protein-mimetic synthetic macromolecules with biomimetic hierarchical structure. Abby completed her PhD at UC Berkeley with Prof. Matthew Francis and her postdoctoral training at UC Santa Barbara with Prof. Craig Hawker. Her group's research aims to engineer synthetic nanomaterials that rival the binding capabilities of proteins, with applications in global health and sustainability. She is a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow and recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.

Dr Cristina Trujillo is the Lecturer and Deputy Head of Computational & Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Manchester.

Edina Rosta is a Professor of Molecular Modelling in the Condensed Matter & Materials Physics group of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London.

Professor Craig Butts is the Head of the School of Chemistry and Professor of Structural and Mechanistic Chemistry at the University of Bristol. The Butts Research Group tackles challenges based around organic molecular structure and reaction mechanism, principally using NMR spectroscopy - the most information-rich analytical technique available to chemists.

Jonathan Hirst is Professor in Computational Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. He was Head of Chemistry at Nottingham (2013-2017) and his tenure saw some significant transformations, including the building of the GSK Carbon Neutral Laboratory and a successful bid for an Athena Swan Silver Award.