I am a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Bristol and an Associate Professor at the Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. I have been on the IoP’s Computational Physics Group committee since 2020.
My research centres around the development and application of first principles methods for materials modelling, primarily using density functional theory (DFT). I am particularly interested in methods for simulating large systems containing thousands of atoms, as well as for simulating spectroscopy. I am a developer of different DFT codes, most notably the wavelet-based BigDFT code, and am interested in various aspects of software development, including the efficient use of high performance computing. I am also interested in a range of applications, from molecules to the solid state. Like my research, my teaching is interdisciplinary, spanning physics, chemistry and computing.
Find out more about my research at www.ratcliffgroup.wordpress.com.
Computational Physics Group 