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I am a   and lead the Atomistic Simulation of Materials group within the  at the . We use the tools of atomistic simulation to investigate the behaviour of a variety of materials and material evolution processes.

I joined the  in April 2013 as a Dalton Research Fellow within the  and the . Before coming to Manchester I spent three years in the  of the  in Dusseldorf Germany, latterly as an . I completed my PhD in 2010, in the , , under the supervision of  and .

I am a physicist by training and a materials scientist by inclination. I am attracted to materials science by the links it draws between the behaviour of real materials - things we experience and use in our everyday macroscopic lives - and what happens in the microscopic world of atoms and electrons. Materials science involves the application of fundamental theories of physics to solve real-world problems. As a bonus, these problems are often extremely complex, involving a hierarchy of processes across a range of length and time scales. To model them we need to use a broad range of tools, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.