Research
Research areas
013 papers
Building the models that simulate atoms.
ML Potential Architectures
Machine-learning interatomic potentials for accelerating atomistic simulations, including specialist model architectures, descriptor selection and extrapolation diagnostics.
Committee-of-ExpertsDescriptor SelectionExtrapolation Theory
024 papers
From atomic coordinates to macroscopic behaviour.
Structure–Property Learning
Models that relate molecular and atomic structure to material and pharmaceutical properties, including electronic DOS, Bayesian NMR, and solubility in lipid excipients.
Electronic DOSBayesian NMRMolecular Descriptors
033 papers
Which polymorph will a drug molecule form?
Crystal Structure Prediction
Work on ML reranking pipelines and blind-test benchmarking for pharmaceutical crystal-structure prediction.
ML RerankingBlind-Test BenchmarkCrystal Energy Landscapes
041 paper
Learning representations that make measurements comparable.
Analytical Measurement Embeddings
Embedding-based analysis of analytical chemistry measurements, with XRPD solid-form comparison as the first published example.
Measurement EmbeddingsXRPDSiamese Networks
051 paper
LLM-based systems for evidence retrieval and scientific workflows.
Agentic Laboratory Workflows
Agentic workflows and laboratory ecosystems, with APPA as a published example connecting evidence and predictive tools for preformulation.
LLM AgentsTool-Use ReasoningEvidence Synthesis
Publications by theme
01 · 3 papers
ML Potential Architectures
2024
Divide-and-Conquer Potentials Enable Scalable and Accurate Predictions of Forces and Energies in Atomistic Systems
Digital Discovery (RSC)
A committee-of-experts approach combining specialised machine-learning potentials for predictions of atomic energies and forces.
Read the research story →2022
Exploring the Robust Extrapolation of High-Dimensional Machine Learning Potentials
Physical Review B
An investigation of extrapolation in high-dimensional machine-learning potentials, using the geometry and probability density of the representation space.
Read the research story →2018
Automatic Selection of Atomic Fingerprints and Reference Configurations for Machine-Learning Potentials
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Automatic selection of atomic fingerprints and reference configurations to reduce the dimensionality and training requirements of machine-learning potentials.
Read the research story →02 · 4 papers
Structure–Property Learning
2024
Comparative Analysis of Chemical Descriptors by Machine Learning Reveals Atomistic Insights into Solute–Lipid Interactions
Molecular Pharmaceutics
A comparison of molecular descriptors for predicting solubility in lipid excipients and interpreting solute–lipid interactions.
2020
Learning the Electronic Density of States in Condensed Matter
Physical Review B
A machine-learning framework for predicting the electronic density of states through local, atom-centred contributions, studied in condensed-matter systems.
2019
A Bayesian Approach to NMR Crystal Structure Determination
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
A Bayesian framework combining predicted NMR chemical shifts with uncertainty estimates to assess candidate molecular crystal structures.
2018
Generalized Convex Hull Construction for Materials Discovery
Physical Review Materials
A generalised convex-hull framework using structural descriptors to identify candidate materials and explore their stability under different constraints.
03 · 3 papers
Crystal Structure Prediction
2024
The Seventh Blind Test of Crystal Structure Prediction: Structure Ranking Methods
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science
A community benchmark comparing crystal structure ranking methods across pharmaceutical targets, including dispersion-corrected DFT and machine-learning approaches.
70citations
2024
The Seventh Blind Test of Crystal Structure Prediction: Structure Generation Methods
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science
A community benchmark of crystal structure generation methods, examining the recovery of experimental structures across pharmaceutical targets.
82citations
2024
Robust and Efficient Reranking in Crystal Structure Prediction: A Data-Driven Method for Real-Life Molecules
CrystEngComm
An active-learning workflow that uses predicted energies and uncertainties to select crystal structures for DFT relaxation. The fentanyl benchmark reports 34% savings in reranking computational cost; a separate reduced-pool study covers 17 pharmaceutical compounds.
Read the research story →04 · 1 paper
Analytical Measurement Embeddings
2024
Automatic Solid Form Classification in Pharmaceutical Drug Development
AI for Accelerated Materials Discovery (AI4MAT), NeurIPS 2024 Workshop
SMolNet learns embeddings of experimental XRPD patterns for pairwise solid-form comparison, evaluated on compounds withheld from training.
Read the research story →3citations
05 · 1 paper
Agentic Laboratory Workflows
2025
APPA: Agentic Preformulation Pathway Assistant
arXiv preprint (2503.16698)
APPA combines scientific literature, experimental databases and machine-learning predictors to support evidence gathering and preformulation planning for drug candidates.
Read the research story →