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Professor Bartomeu Monserrat

Gianna Angelopoulos Lecturer in Computational Materials Science

bm418@cam.ac.uk

Professor Chris J Pickard

Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science

+44 (0)1223 334338

cjp20@cam.ac.uk

Dr Maelie Causse

Postdoctoral Research Associate

mc2552@cam.ac.uk

Dr Siyu Chen

Postdoctoral Research Associate

sc2090@cam.ac.uk

Dr Peter Cooke

Postdoctoral Research Associate

pc729@cam.ac.uk

Ms Nichola Daily

Group Secretary, Administration

nd241@cam.ac.uk

Dr Stefano Racioppi

PDRA in the Material Theory Group

sr2200@cam.ac.uk

Associate Professor Kazuto Akagi

Associate Professor, Materials Physics Group, M. Kotani Laboratory

akagi@wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp

Dr Ryuhei Sato

Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo

r-sato@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Arjun Ashoka

PhD student, Gates Scholar and Winton Scholar

aa2066@cam.ac.uk

Alan Bowman

PhD student, Winton Scholar

arb83@cam.ac.uk

Ivona Bravić

PhD student

+44(0)1223 3 36073

ib376@cam.ac.uk

Dr Lewis Conway

Postdoctoral Research Associate

ljc83@cam.ac.uk

Dr Kapildeb Dolui

Postdoctoral Research Associate

kd524@cam.ac.uk

Prof Defang Duan

Associate Professor of Jilin University

dd515@cam.ac.uk

Yuchen Hu

PhD student, EPSRC and Trinity Henry-Barlow Scholarship

yh386@cam.ac.uk

Dr Se Hun Joo

Postdoctoral Research Associate

shj29@cam.ac.uk

Gunnar Lange

PhD student, Aker Scholar

gfl25@cam.ac.uk

Dr Yun Liu

Postdoctoral Research Associate

yl398@cam.ac.uk

Dr. Hisao Nakamura

Senior Research Scientist, Research Center for Computational Design of Advanced Functional Materials, AIST, Japan

+44 (0)1223 334335

hn302@cam.ac.uk

Dr Joseph Nelson

Postdoctoral Research Associate

AIMR Joint Centre Scientist

Postdoctoral By-Fellow, Churchill College

+44 (0)1223 334335

Bo Peng

PhD student, Winton Scholar

bp432@cam.ac.uk

Pascal Salzbrenner

Postdoctoral Research Associate

pts28@cam.ac.uk

Dr Georg Schusteritsch

Postdoctoral Research Associate

+44 (0)1223 334335

gs550@cam.ac.uk

Ben Shires

PhD student, EPSRC CDT in Computational Methods in Materials Science

+44 (0)1223 334335

bs511@cam.ac.uk

Dr W. Chuck Witt

Junior Research Fellow (Christ's College)

Schmidt Science Fellow

wcw28@cam.ac.uk

Latest news

Welcome to Will Galloway and Dr. JiuYang Shi !

25 November 2025

Will Galloway has joined the MTG as a PhD student in October. Dr. JiuYang Shi will collaborate with MTG, he is a postdoc in Prof. Angelos Michaelides.

AIRAPT Conference in Matsuyama (Japan)

28 September 2025

Dr. Ryuhei Sato (Assistant Professor at Tokyo University) and Dr. Maélie Caussé attended the 2025 AIRAPT Conference.

Dr. Ruyhei Sato and Kim Kamsma visiting MTG. And Welcome to Stefano Racioppi !

1 September 2025

Dr. Ruyhei Sato from Tokyo University and Tim Kamsam (PhD student in Utrecht University in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics) visited Material Theory Group this summer for few months ! Picture of the MTG (from left to...

Chris Pickard on the American Scientist podcast

24 July 2025

MTG group leader Chris Pickard was featured on the American Scientist podcast this month. Access the podcast using this link to hear Chris discuss a range of topics, from future research directions of the group, to pondering...

CS2PA Workshop in Poitiers (France)

20 June 2025

The first edition CS2PA workshop, a series of hands-on tutorials on Crystal Structure Prediction & Machine-learned potentials was held in Poitiers University (France), (see program of CS2PA ) MTG leader Chris Pickard and...

Congratulations Pascal Salzbrenner !

10 June 2025

Dr. Pascal Salzbrenner completed his PhD on High-throughput Ab Initio Phase Diagram Prediction in 2025.

Successful Gordon Research Conference on Materials at High Pressure

27 September 2024

The Materials Theory Group was well represented at the Gordon Research at High Pressure Conference in Holderness, New Hampshire, from 14-19 July. This year, the conference was chaired by our group leader, Prof. Chris Pickard...

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