Aron Walsh - Curriculum Vitae#

• Chair in Materials Design, Imperial College London, UK

• PhD in Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin (2006)
  
• First-class BA(Mod) in Computational Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin (2003)

• Insights into nanoscale processes in complex crystals, connecting ionic, electronic, and vibrational processes
  
• Contributions to the field of energy materials, including the structure and function of metal oxides, next-generation kesterite and perovskite photovoltaics, and materials informatics
  
• Developed widely used tools for advancing data-driven chemistry, including open-source packages like SMACT maintained on Github (https://github.com/WMD-group), which are being used worldwide
  
• Authored >450 peer-reviewed papers (>70,000 citations), including a highly influential Nature article on machine learning for materials science (>120,000 downloads; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0337-2)
  
• Awarded prestigious research prizes including the Corday-Morgan Prize (RSC, 2019), Philip Leverhulme Prize (2017), and EU-40 Materials Prize (2015)
  
• £20M+ in research funding, leading projects on solar energy, catalysis, and materials informatics, including an ERC Advanced Grant to expand his research on electroactive metal-organic frameworks

• Supervised >20 PhD students and >20 postdoctoral researchers, with alumni in leading positions at institutions such as Harvard, Cambridge, and University College London
  
• Recognised for fostering diverse career pathways across academia, government, and industry (Samsung, Materials Nexus, Benevolent AI)

• Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), and active contributor to international guidelines (e.g., perovskite stability assessment and machine learning protocols)
  
• Organised major outreach efforts, such as the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition on materials informatics, engaging policymakers, schools, and the public
  
• Leadership roles in materials and chemistry communities, including chairing a Spring Meeting for the European MRS and various committees for RSC, MRS, IOM3, and advisory boards for international journals such as J Phys Energy for the Institute of Physics
  
• Co-inventor on a patent for thermoelectric materials with Samsung