Cambridge Supervisor: Angelos Michaelides
Berkeley host: Kristin Persson
Benjamin completed his undergraduate studies in Materials Science at the University of Oxford before starting his PhD topic on de veloping high-accuracy quantum chemistry methods for materials science. He is in his third year of his PhD, working with Professor Angelos Michaelides at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. In his PhD Benjamin aims to model materials to high accuracy with coupled cluster theory – the ‘gold-standard’ of quantum chemistry. These methods are very expensive to apply and Benjamin is currently developing low-cost approaches by combining efficient modelling protocols with state-of-the-art reduced scaling approximations. Benja min’s Berkeley project is to perform accurate high-throughput modelling of molecular adsorption in metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) for carbon capture and sequestration.