Professor Graeme M. Day FRSC

Graeme Day is Professor of Chemical Modelling at the University of Southampton. His research concerns the development of computational methods for modelling the organic molecular solid state. A key focus of this work is the prediction of crystal structures from first principles; his research group applies these methods in a range of applications, including pharmaceutical solid form screening, NMR crystallography and computer-guided discovery of functional materials. 

After a PhD in computational chemistry at University College London, he spent 10 years at the University of Cambridge, where he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship working mainly on modelling pharmaceutical materials and computational interpretation of terahertz spectroscopy. He moved to the University of Southampton in 2012, at which time he was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant for the 'Accelerated design and discovery of novel molecular materials via global lattice energy minimisation' (ANGLE). This grant shifted the focus of his research to functional materials, including porous crystals and organic electronics. In 2020, he was awarded an ERC Synergy grant 'Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials' (ADAM) with Andrew Cooper (Liverpool) and Kerstin Thurow (Rostock) to integrate computational predictions, chemical space exploration with automation in the materials discovery lab.