David Wales#
| Membership Number: | 7459 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-wales.ch.cam.ac.uk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3555-6645 |
| Publication Link: | https://wales.group.ch.cam.ac.uk/publications |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Chair of the Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University
- 2009 - 2016 Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University
- 2008 Professor of Chemical Physics, Cambridge University
- 2004 Reader in Chemical Physics, Cambridge University
- 1998 University Lecturer, Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Global optimisation
- Rare events
- Energy landscapes
- Enhanced sampling
- Theoretical chemistry
- Computational chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor, New York University
- 2023 Infosys Distinguished Visiting Professor, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
- 2020 Humboldt Research Prize, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2020 Inaugural ICReDD Award, commemorating Professor Akira Suzuki, Hokkaido
- 2020 Visiting Miller Professorship, University of California, Berkeley
- 2020- 2025 International Chair, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Cote d’Azur
- 2017 Visiting Professor, Universidad de La Laguna
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Medal and Prize
- 2011 - 2012 Visiting Professor, Université de Lyon
- 2010 European Research Council Advanced Grant Award
- 2006 Visiting Professor, Boston University
- 2006 Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
- 2005 Baker Lecturer, Cornell University
- 1999 Visiting Professor, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
- 1999 Visiting Professor, Harvard University
- 1992 Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal and Prize
