Dr. Peter Haynes

Biography

Peter Haynes is a Professor at Imperial College London, holding a position in the Provost Deputy President Office. He has a background in Theory and Simulation of Materials and his research is focused on the development of new methods for performing first-principles quantum-mechanical simulations applied to materials science, nanotechnology, and biological systems. Peter has primarily worked on methods for large-scale simulations where computational effort scales linearly with system size. He is the author of the ONETEP code and was awarded the Maxwell Medal Prize in Computational Physics by the Institute of Physics in 2010. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021, his research interests have expanded to include methods for simulating molecular materials with the aid of emerging quantum computers in collaboration with the Imperial Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science, and Technology, as well as with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. Peter completed his doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1998 after studying Natural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge. He has held various prestigious fellowships throughout his career, including the Thomas Nevile Research Fellowship at Magdalene College and the Ramon Jenkins Senior Research Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College. He joined Imperial College London in June 2007.

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