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The group was founded at STFC's Daresbury Laboratory in 1993. For
over ten years the main emphasis was on the development of high
performance software for materials simulation. This resulted in significant
contributions to the CRYSTAL, CASTEP, DLEXCURVE and OPTADOS
codes. It also led to the introduction of hybrid exchange density
functional theory to condensed matter simulations in 2000.
From 2005 onwards the emphasis shifted to materials discovery and optimsation often in collaboration with industry. This has led to the discovery of the worlds hardest oxide material, new routes for catalyst optimisation, near room temperature magnetism in molecular magnets and a new approach to predicting, preventing, detecting and mitigating materials ageing. 20 doctoral students have graduated from the group and have moved on to careers in academia and industry. Since 2005 Harrison has been a director of the Master of Research in Nanomaterials (MRes) course in the Department of Chemistry which has graduated a very international group of 350+ masters students. |
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401L Molecular Sciences Research Hub Department of Chemistry Imperial College London White City Campus 82 Wood Lane London, W12 0BZ |