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Hessam Mehr is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow working at the interface of chemistry, robotics, and computer science. After completing his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, he moved to Canada to pursue a PhD in supramolecular chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Mark MacLachlan at the University of British Columbia, which he completed in 2017. He briefly left academia to work on automated analysis of drug samples using NMR at Health Canada before joining the Cronin group at the University of Glasgow as a post-doc in March 2018. Dr. Mehr has been involved in the development and validation of the XDL chemical programming language and in exploring applications for universal code in chemical synthesis and autonomous discovery. From February 2021 to April 2022, he oversaw the evolution of XDL from version 1.0 to 2.0, enhancing it with higher-level language constructs that allow for the expression of complex chemical programs and intuitive abstractions for executing multiple programs in parallel. In 2021, he was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to support his proposal for generating chemical discovery engines, focusing on projects that employ machine learning, Bayesian modeling, and other advanced techniques in chemistry.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow working on projects involving the intersection of chemistry, robotics, and computer science.