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Laura Ratcliff is an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London, part of the Faculty of Engineering. She is affiliated with the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering and the Ratcliff Group at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on developing first-principles computational methods for simulating large-scale materials systems, with applications in energy-related materials and spectroscopy. She is a developer of DFT-based software (BigDFT, MADNESS, ONETEP) and emphasizes high-performance computing.
Education:
- PhD in Materials, Imperial College London (2008-2011)
- MPhys Theoretical Physics (with Year in Europe), University of York (2004-2008)
- Erasmus Exchange in L’Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (2006-2007)
Her research interests span theoretical chemistry, condensed matter physics, and computational materials engineering, with a focus on density-functional theory (DFT) applications to nanotechnology and biochemistry. She develops software for scalable simulations of systems with thousands of atoms, addressing challenges in organic LEDs and X-ray spectroscopy modeling.
Awards: EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship (2017-).
Advising/Grants: Leads the Ratcliff Group (Bristol) and collaborates across institutions. Her EPSRC fellowship supports methodological advancements in computational materials science. No advisees explicitly listed.
Labs/Teams: Active in Imperial's Department of Materials and the University of Bristol's School of Chemistry through her research group.
