Dr. Chris Skylaris

Biography

Chris-Kriton Skylaris studied Chemistry at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece and received a first-class MChem degree in 1996. He completed his PhD in Quantum Chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1999 and held a postdoctoral research position at the CINECA supercomputing centre in Bologna, Italy, within the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Laboratory until 2004. He was then awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2004 to 2012, first at the University of Oxford and later at the University of Southampton. In 2006, he was appointed to a Lectureship in Chemistry at Southampton, where he currently serves as a Professor of Computational Chemistry. His research focuses on the development of theory, algorithms, and codes for quantum mechanical calculations and their application to materials science, particularly in the realms of catalysis, drug design, and the simulation of new materials. Skylaris is a founding and leading author of the ONETEP program, which facilitates large-scale quantum chemistry simulations. He is active in the UK Car-Parrinello Consortium and has published over 150 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. His work is supported by several research councils and encompasses industry collaborations.

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