David Wales - Curriculum Vitae#

Research: Energy landscapes, including applications to chemical biology, spectroscopy, clusters, glasses, solids, surfaces, quantum computing, and machine learning. Publications: 534 papers and two books.

Named Lectures and Awards:

• 2025 Shri Gopal Rajgarhia International Senior Visitor, IIT Kharagpur
  
• 2024 Spotlight Talk, School of Natural and Biomedical Sciences, Warsaw
  
• 2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor, New York University
  
• 2023 Infosys Distinguished Visiting Professor, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
  
• 2023 International Lecture Series, Zhejiang University, China
  
• 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
  
• 2020 Plenary Lecturer, 19th Cardiff Chemistry Conference
  
• 2020 American Physical Society, Physics of Liquids, Distinguished Invited Speaker
  
• 2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA: Distinguished Lecture
  
• 2016 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
  
• 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Medal and Prize
  
• 2014 Telluride Science Research Centre 30th Anniversary Lecturer
  
• 2010 European Research Council Advanced Grant Award
  
• 2007 Inaugural Henry Frank Lecturer, Pittsburgh Center for Molecular and Materials Simulations
  
• 2005 Baker Lecturer, Cornell University
  
• 1992 Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal and Prize

Visiting Professorships:

• 2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor, New York University
  
• 2023 Infosys Distinguished Visiting Professor, Harish-Chandra Research Institute Allahabad
  
• 2022 - 2025 Honorary Professor, University of Warwick
  
• 2017 Visiting Professor, Universidad de La Laguna
  
• 2011 - 2012 Visiting Professor, Universit´e de Lyon
  
• 2006 Visiting Professor, Boston University
  
• 2006 Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
  
• 1999 Visiting Professor, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay
  
• 1999 Visiting Professor, Harvard University

Fellowships:

• 1991 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
  
• 1990 Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Fellowship
  
• 1989 English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth Lindemann Trust Fellowship