Sam G.H. Brookes undertook his viva today morning, and passed with minor corrections — many congratulations to Dr. Brookes! Sam represents the first ever PhD student to graduate from the FAST group, setting a trend for future FAST members to follow! Pictured below is Sam and his “PhD hat” (built by his fellow ICE group […]
Machine learning potentials and foundation models are changing atomistic simulation — but to truly raise the bar, we need to break out of the standard DFT reference. Our new paper, published as J. Chem. Theory Comput. (2025) 21, 22, 11710–11720, pushes that frontier: we demonstrate a Δ-learning route towards coupled-cluster accuracy for the condensed phase, […]
We had a great time in Lausanne for the 7th Psi-k conference, held at the SwissTech Convention Centre, EPFL across 25 to 28 August 2025, with a week full of interesting talks, insightful discussions, and wonderful science! Thank you to the Psi-k organising committee for the excellent event, we very much enjoyed keeping up-to-date with […]
In this study, we uncovered a previously unknown reaction mechanism, showing that CO₂ can react at the interface with similar energetics to the bulk phase. This finding challenges the common assumption that surface reactions are suppressed, and has important implications for climate models and our understanding of carbon uptake by the oceans. Congratulations to Sam, […]
To celebrate Lars’s successful PhD viva, the FAST group headed out to the punts to drift lazily down the River Cam (after all, what better way is there to study water, than to simply float on it?). Much fun was had, with a few of us taking turns to push the really big stick around […]
We decided to take advantage of the great weather, and held a (veggie-friendly) BBQ party at Wolfson College! Some good fun was also had afterwards throwing/kicking a ball around. Congrats to Darren, Joe, and Steffen for recently completing their halfway reports & presentations for the MPhil!
Congratulations to Xavi, who just published his first lead-author paper as ACS Nano (2025) 19, 18, 17728–17737: a major milestone and a fantastic piece of work! In this study, we tackled a long-standing question: how do protons and hydroxide ions behave at the graphene-water interface? While it’s well-known that protons like to hang out at […]
Apparently the parkruns weren’t enough: Christoph, Darren, Isaac, Niamh, and Xavi decided to test their allegiance to the FAST name, and prove themselves at the Cambridge Half-Marathon! We were also joined by Sam Coles from the ICE group. Ultimately, Isaac proved to be the FASTest of us all, clocking in at 01:24:49. Congrats to all […]
To celebrate the upcoming Christmas, we decided to take our theories of solid water and put them into practice – by demonstrating how to skate on it! We were joined also by Hugo Rauch from the ICE group, to make it all the more fitting. Some of us skated around and around in circles at […]