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Prof. Damien Thompson
SSPC Director & Modelling Theme Leader
Biography
Damien Thompson leads the predictive materials modelling group at Bernal Institute University of Limerick, designing novel architectures based on directed self-assembly of nanoscale building blocks (molecules, nanoparticles, and proteins), in collaboration with leading experimental and industry partners.
Expertise
Interests - Predictive modelling of molecular materials - Biological and bio-inspired materials - High-performance computing - Molecular dynamics simulations - Electronic structure calculations