About
George Booth is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London, part of the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, and a member of the Department of Physics. He joined in 2014 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and became a Reader in 2019. His research focuses on developing advanced computational methods for quantum many-body systems, including quantum embedding techniques and systematic improvable approaches. He holds a MSci in Physics from the University of Nottingham and a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Cambridge.
Booth leads the Booth Group, which develops open-source software such as the Vayesta package for quantum embedding. His work emphasizes predictive electronic structure calculations and has been supported by grants like the ERC Starting Grant (2017). Key areas include correlated electron systems, quantum machine learning, and the application of Gaussian Process States for data-driven quantum physics.
- Education: MSci (Nottingham), PhD (Cambridge)
- Awards: ERC Starting Grant, Royal Society Fellowship
- Labs/Teams: Booth Group, Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)
- Grants: £4.5m EPSRC funding for Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub
His research bridges condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry, with contributions to stochastic methods, variational quantum eigensolvers, and the simulation of extended systems.
