Dr David Quigley

Dr Quigley is an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow in the Department of Physics. He also holds an honorary position at the University of Birmingham. He was previously a fellow of the Science City Research Alliance, and a PDRA in the Department of Chemistry where he worked within a consortium on modelling the biological interface with materials. His research is in the area of computational condensed matter physics, particularly with regard to the structure, properties and growth mechanisms of organic solids and biomaterials.

He is a member of the CCP5 executive committee, and of the Institute of Physics Computational Physics Group committee.

Current Research

Non-classical mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth.
Characterisation and understanding stability and disorder in biomaterials.
Improved Monte-Carlo methods for mapping/tuning the phase behaviour of model organic solids.
High performance computing and software development.

Potential PhD projects in these areas will be advertised via the Theory Group web pages.

Teaching

PX425/CY901: High Performance Computing. Shared with Prof. R. A. Roemer.
CY902N: Core Algorithms for High Performance Scientific Computing. Joint CSC/NAG training course funded by the HECToR computing service.

Positions available

A two-year EPSRC postdoctoral position is available to model growth of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride on metal surfaces. See the Theory Group vacancies page for details.
Students interested in persuing PhD projects in the group should feel free to contact me, ideally in November/December of their final undergraduate year.

News and Updates

March 2012 :	Dr Bart Vorselaars joins the group from the University of Reading. Bart will be studying the application of path sampling techniques to crystallisation of organic solids.
October 2011 :	Stephen Day begins a iMR CDT PhD project (jointly supervised with J. V. Hanna) on characterising disorder in materials.
July 2011 :	Awarded 8.2M A.U. of HECToR time (with J. V. Hanna) to support calculations on rare-earth apatite materials.
July 2011 :	dCSE project 'Preparing DL_POLY 4 for the exascale' funded.
October 2010 :	Sally Bridgwater joins the group from Bristol University. Sally will be studying the phase behaviour of organic crystals.
June 2010 :	First results of HECToR capability challenge project published in Angewandte Chemie.
November 2009 :	dCSE project 'Enhancing the materials chemistry code DL_POLY' funded.
July 2009 :	Awarded a five-year EPSRC career acceleration fellowship.
August 2008 :	HECToR capability challenge project featured at Scientific-Computing.com.
January 2008 :	Work on ice nucleation featured in the HECToR launch movie.
December 2007 :	HECToR capability challenge project Simulating protein control of Calcite Crystallisation by Ovocleidin-17 funded.