David Tew

David Tew serves as an Associate Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford and is a Tutorial Fellow at St Hilda's College. He actively develops computational methods for chemical simulation and is a stakeholder in Turbomole GmbH, an international software collaboration.

His academic foundation includes undergraduate and doctoral studies at Trinity College Cambridge, completing his PhD in 2003 under Prof. Handy. Prior to Oxford (since 2020), he held positions as Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Marie-Curie Fellow (2005-2007) with Prof. Klopper in Karlsruhe, and Royal Society University Research Fellow (2009-2017) at Bristol.

Research focuses on:

• Electronic Structure: Advancing coupled-cluster theory, explicitly correlated methods, and local approximations for scalable quantum chemistry calculations
• Molecular Dynamics: Simulating quantum tunnelling effects and developing machine learning for potential energy surfaces
• Quantum Computing: Mapping chemistry problems to quantum architectures for future simulations

His work intersects with kinetics, dynamics, mechanism, and theoretical modelling in chemical sciences.

Scientific recognition:

• Marie-Curie Fellowship (2005-2007)
• Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2009-2017)

Professor Tew leads the Tew Research Group, collaborating globally with experimental and theoretical teams to develop the Turbomole program suite and pioneer methods for solving real-world chemical problems through computational innovation.