Peter who is a professor of Theory and Simulation of Materials at the Departments of Materials and Physics and Head of the Department of Materials at Imperial was elected as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
His research focuses on computational materials science, in particular the development of new simulation tools that solve the equations of quantum mechanics for large numbers of atoms. These have been implemented in the ONETEP software that is marketed to industry by Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA.
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