Sarah Price

Sarah Price is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University College London (UCL). Her research focuses on intermolecular forces, theoretical chemistry, and computational modeling of organic solids, particularly pharmaceutical compounds. She developed the DMACRYS software for predicting organic crystal structures and has collaborated extensively with European research groups to validate computational models against experimental data. Her work bridges quantum mechanics and atomistic modeling, advancing methods for predicting molecular properties in the solid state.

• Education:
• B.A. Natural Sciences (1974–1977), Clare College, Cambridge
• Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry (1977–1980), Clare College, Cambridge, supervised by Dr. AJ Stone

Dr. Price’s research interests include the development of anisotropic atom-atom models for intermolecular forces, computational prediction of organic crystal structures, and the application of multi-scale modeling to pharmaceutical solids. She pioneered methods to integrate computational predictions with experimental crystallography, enabling the discovery of new polymorphs and guiding experimental efforts. Her work has been adopted by academic and industrial researchers globally.

Her scientific accolades include the 2017 Royal Society Fellowship and the 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize. She led the European Research Council’s MagnaPharm project (2016) on magnetic control of pharmaceutical polymorphism, demonstrating her leadership in interdisciplinary computational mineral physics.

• Key Contributions:
• Development of DMACRYS software
• Advancing computational methods for pharmaceutical solid-state prediction
• Collaborative efforts in crystal structure validation