Dave has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow in computational chemistry. He will be carrying out DFT calculations on the structures and NMR parameters of disordered materials using AIRSS and CASTEP and developing computational tools for the analysis of computed data. The work is supported by the ERC.

Previously, he completed his Ph.D. on computational heteroborane chemistry at Heriot-Watt University, jointly supervised by Stuart Macgregor and Alan Welch. He then went to Toulouse to complete a postdoctoral fellowship with Laurent Maron at INSA, to investigate small molecule activation at organometallic U(III). His second postdoctoral role was back at Heriot-Watt, where he investigated catalytic hydrodefluorination (HDF) at Ru(II) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes.