I make a living by not understanding things in a sense. I’m good at not understanding. And then eventually I succeed in partly understanding something, and then I think anybody else can [understand it].
— John Conway, in an interview for The Simons Foundation Science Lives series
I am a computer scientist in Professor Andy Cooper’s group at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, University of Liverpool. My current research is dedicated to understanding the crystallization of molecular crystals to develop more ethical and sustainable methodologies for molecular crystal structure prediction.
This work integrates areas of computational geometry, information geometry, and mathematical chemistry with the goal to translate mathematical principles into practical chemical applications, facilitating the computational design of novel materials through purely geometric modelling.
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Current projects
Crystallization via Electrostatic Interactions in Molecular Framework Geometries with G. M. Day (University of Southampton) and A. I. Cooper (University of Liverpool)
Integral Formulae for Solutions of PDEs with Constant Coefficients and Their Integrability with R. Púček (University of Jena)
Geometry-Informed Programming: From Statistical Manifolds to Close-Packings of Hard van der Waals Sphere Models with A. I Cooper (University of Liverpool), X. Evangelopoulos (University of Liverpool) and V. Kurlin (University of Liverpool)
Exploring the Duality between Geometric Networks and Stochastic Learning Machines through the Lens of the Crystallisation Conjecture with R. Púček (University of Jena)
Seriation fusion from multiple local and complete orderings with X. Evangelopoulos (Univeristy of Liverpool) and T. Mu (University of Manchester)