Fernando Bresme

Professor Fernando Bresme is a Professor of Chemical Physics at the Department of Chemistry, part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London. His research focuses on computational and theoretical investigations of complex interfaces in soft materials, including colloids, biopolymers, membranes, and nanomaterials. He leads the Computational Chemical Physics group, which develops computational tools to study energy and mass transport at nanoscale interfaces for applications in energy management, catalysis, and medical therapies.

Key affiliations include the Energy Futures Lab, the Institute of Chemical Biology, the Thomas Young Centre (London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials), and the Science and Engineering Research for Cultural Heritage. His research spans non-equilibrium thermodynamics, molecular dynamics simulations, and interdisciplinary collaborations with experimental groups.

Recent work includes studies on thermal conductivity of water, molecular orientation in non-polar fluids under thermal gradients, and the thermodynamic efficiency of molecular machines like Ca2+-ATPase. He has organized conferences such as the 2021 Thermophysics conference on Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the 2022 workshop on thermal energy storage materials.

Bresme holds a prominent role in Imperial’s Chemical Biology and Healthcare programs and supervises students in the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Chemical Biology. His group actively collaborates with experimentalists to bridge simulation and real-world applications in energy and materials science.