Dr. Francisco Martin Martinez

Biography

Francisco Martin-Martinez is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at King’s College London, focusing on computational chemistry, machine learning, and biomimicry. He earned his PhD in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry from the University of Granada. Following his doctorate, he held a postdoctoral position at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and subsequently worked as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for six years. In 2020, he joined Swansea University as a lecturer in Chemistry, before transitioning to King’s College London in 2024. At King’s, he leads the MMLab, a multidisciplinary research group aimed at developing sustainable materials inspired by natural systems, specifically focusing on material degradation pathways to improve performance and durability. His research utilizes biomass feedstocks and aims to engineer materials for various applications such as self-healing infrastructure and precision agriculture. He has extensive experience with tools like Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics simulations, producing datasets that serve as valuable resources for training machine learning models. Francisco is an affiliate member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society.

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