Field-aware atomistic models
Machine-learning interatomic potentials for dielectric and ferroelectric response, where polarization, Born charges, polarizability, and spectra are obtained by differentiating a shared scalar functional.
Materials ML | Atomistic simulation | Polarons
Theoretical physicist and materials machine-learning researcher building source-aware atomistic models, generative tools for crystal design, and path-integral methods for electron-phonon physics.
Research
The recurring thread is to make models respect the variables that matter physically: applied fields, crystal structure, phonons, charge carriers, and the response functions that connect them.
Machine-learning interatomic potentials for dielectric and ferroelectric response, where polarization, Born charges, polarizability, and spectra are obtained by differentiating a shared scalar functional.
Property-conditioned crystal generation and structure recovery workflows, including CrystaLLM-pi tools for inverse design and diffraction-conditioned prediction.
Variational path-integral theory for charge-carrier mobility, electron-phonon coupling, optical conductivity, and high-throughput screening of polar semiconductors.
CV
Academic CV available as a PDF.
Software
Research code, public web tools, and teaching repositories are collected here for quick access.
Research software
Electric-field-aware MACE models for derivative-consistent polarization, Born effective charges, polarizability, and finite-field molecular dynamics.
Julia package
Variational polaron calculations, DC mobility estimates, and frequency-dependent response for continuum and lattice models.
Public web tool
Browser interface for CrystaLLM-pi generation jobs, including composition input, optional XRD conditioning, structure visualisation, and CIF download.
Julia code
Path-integral quantum Monte Carlo code for polarons, developed alongside broader path-integral work in the Frost group.
Teaching
Public teaching repositories and thesis material for students and collaborators.
Notebook sequence for diffusion fundamentals, crystal diffusion from scratch, and modern crystal-generation workflows.
Open linkWorkshop material on transformer models for crystal generation, property conditioning, and hands-on CrystaLLM-pi notebooks.
Open linkPath Integral Methods for Polarons in Real Materials, PhD thesis, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, October 2024.
Open linkPublications
The list highlights recent materials-ML, generative-design, and polaron publications, with full records on ORCID and Google Scholar.
PRX Intelligence 1, 013006, 2026
MACEField paper: electric enthalpy learning for polarization, Born effective charges, polarizability, and finite-field molecular dynamics.
arXiv:2511.21299, revised 2026
CrystaLLM-pi property injection for structure recovery, XRD-conditioned generation, and inverse materials design.
arXiv:2606.07327, 2026
Perspective on definitions, limits, and research directions for foundation models in atomistic simulation.
Nature Machine Intelligence 7, 1598-1599, 2025
News & Views article on generative AI approaches to accelerating molecular dynamics.
arXiv:2207.06846, revised 2024
Variational path-integral treatment of organic-semiconductor polaron mobility.
Talks
Recent and upcoming talks span response-aware machine learning, polarons, path integrals, and AI methods for materials simulation.
Contact
Especially relevant topics include machine-learning interatomic potentials, finite-field simulations, CrystaLLM-pi workflows, polarons, electron-phonon physics, and spectroscopy-facing theory.