Research

12 papers · 2018–2025 · h-index 10 · 1,123 citations
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5 themes

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01 · 3 papers

ML Potential Architectures

2024
Divide-and-Conquer Potentials Enable Scalable and Accurate Predictions of Forces and Energies in Atomistic Systems
C. Zeni, A. Anelli, A. Glielmo, S. de Gironcoli, K. Rossi
Digital Discovery (RSC)
A committee-of-experts approach combining specialised machine-learning potentials for predictions of atomic energies and forces.
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2022
Exploring the Robust Extrapolation of High-Dimensional Machine Learning Potentials
C. Zeni, A. Anelli, A. Glielmo, K. Rossi
Physical Review B
An investigation of extrapolation in high-dimensional machine-learning potentials, using the geometry and probability density of the representation space.
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2018
Automatic Selection of Atomic Fingerprints and Reference Configurations for Machine-Learning Potentials
G. Imbalzano, A. Anelli, D. Giofré, S. Klees, J. Behler, M. Ceriotti
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Automatic selection of atomic fingerprints and reference configurations to reduce the dimensionality and training requirements of machine-learning potentials.
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02 · 4 papers

Structure–Property Learning

2024
Comparative Analysis of Chemical Descriptors by Machine Learning Reveals Atomistic Insights into Solute–Lipid Interactions
J.J. Lange, A. Anelli et al.
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
C. Ben Mahmoud, A. Anelli, G. Csányi, M. Ceriotti
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
A. Anelli, E.A. Engel, A. Hofstetter, F. Paruzzo, L. Emsley, M. Ceriotti
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
A. Anelli, E.A. Engel, C.J. Pickard, M. Ceriotti
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
L.M. Hunnisett, J. Nyman, N. Francia, N.S. Abraham, S. Aitipamula, T. Alkhidir, ... A. Anelli et al.
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
L.M. Hunnisett, J. Nyman, N. Francia, N.S. Abraham, C.S. Adjiman, ... A. Anelli et al.
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
A. Anelli, H. Dietrich, P. Ectors, F. Stowasser, T. Bereau, M. Neumann, J. van den Ende
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.
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04 · 1 paper

Analytical Measurement Embeddings

2024
Automatic Solid Form Classification in Pharmaceutical Drug Development
J. Lange, L. Komissarov, R. Lang, D.D. Enkelmann, A. Anelli
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.
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3citations
05 · 1 paper

Agentic Laboratory Workflows

2025
APPA: Agentic Preformulation Pathway Assistant
J. Lange, L. Komissarov, N. Wyttenbach, A. Anelli
arXiv preprint (2503.16698)
APPA combines scientific literature, experimental databases and machine-learning predictors to support evidence gathering and preformulation planning for drug candidates.
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