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1968 Professor of Chemistry

I joined the Department in 2020 as the 1968 Professor of Chemistry. See the following link for more information.

Our research involves computer simulations of catalytic and environmental interfaces, aiming at reaching fundamental new understanding of elementary processes at such interfaces. As part of our work, we also seek to develop and improve current simulations methods (quantum and classical) to study such systems. For further information on our research interests see our group web pages.

Positions are availabe for talented students (Part III, masters and PhD) and post-docs interested in joining the group. Interested candiates are encouraged to get in touch by emailing me (with a copy of their CV and research interests).

Biography

Angelos Michaelides obtained a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry in 2000 from The Queen's University of Belfast. Following this, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate and junior research fellow at the University of Cambridge and then at the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow and subsequently research group leader. Between 2006 and 2020 he was at University College London where he was Director and Co-Director of the Thomas Young Centre: The London Centre for the Theory and Simulation of Materials and the founding Director of the Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub. Since 2020 he has been the 1968 Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Professor Michaelides discusses his research

Publications

Trends in water monomer adsorption and dissociation on flat insulating surfaces

XL Hu, J Carrasco, J Klimeš, A Michaelides

– Phys Chem Chem Phys

(2011)

13,

12447

(doi: 10.1039/c1cp20846b)

Initial stages of salt crystal dissolution determined with ab initio molecular dynamics

L-M Liu, A Laio, A Michaelides

– Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

(2011)

13,

13162

(doi: 10.1039/c1cp21077g)

Van der Waals density functionals applied to solids

J Klimeš, DR Bowler, A Michaelides

– Physical Review B

(2011)

83,

195131

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.83.195131)

Melting the ice: On the relation between melting temperature and size for nanoscale ice crystals

D Pan, L-M Liu, B Slater, A Michaelides, E Wang

– ACS nano

(2011)

5,

4562

(doi: 10.1021/nn200252w)

Binding of hydrogen on benzene, coronene, and graphene from quantum Monte Carlo calculations.

J Ma, A Michaelides, D Alfè

– The Journal of Chemical Physics

(2011)

134,

134701

(doi: 10.1063/1.3569134)

Quantum nature of the hydrogen bond

X-Z Li, B Walker, A Michaelides

– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

(2011)

108,

6369

(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1016653108)

Quantum nuclear effects on the location of hydrogen above and below the palladium (100) surface

C Zhang, A Michaelides

– Surface Science

(2011)

605,

689

(doi: 10.1016/j.susc.2011.01.004)

c(2 x 2) Water-Hydroxyl Layer on Cu(110): A Wetting Layer Stabilized by Bjerrum Defects

M Forster, R Raval, A Hodgson, J Carrasco, A Michaelides

– Physical review letters

(2011)

106,

046103

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.046103)

To wet or not to wet? Dispersion forces tip the balance for water ice on metals.

J Carrasco, B Santra, J Klimeš, A Michaelides

– Phys Rev Lett

(2011)

106,

026101

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.026101)

Theory of gold on ceria.

C Zhang, A Michaelides, SJ Jenkins

– Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

(2010)

13,

22

(doi: 10.1039/c0cp01123a)