Aron Walsh is a Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in the Department of Materials, where he leads the Materials Design Group. He is Research Area Lead for Modelling & Simulation at the Henry Royce Institute, and Chief Scientific Officer at CuspAI. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), covering artificial intelligence.

His research involves cutting-edge materials theory and machine learning applied to problems across solid-state chemistry and physics, including materials for solar cells and fuels, batteries, thermoelectrics, and solid-state lighting. He has expertise in semiconductor and dielectric theory and is developing approaches for materials data, informatics, and design. These activities have been supported by funding from the Royal Society, EPSRC, and the European Research Council.

Aron was awarded the EU-40 prize from the European Materials Research Society and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Chemistry. He received the Corday-Morgan Prize from the RSC for his contributions to computational materials chemistry. He was elected to Academia Europaea in 2025, and features in the Highly Cited Researchers list.

Select publications:

- Machine learning for molecular and materials science, Nature (2018)

- Best practices in machine learning for chemistry, Nature Chemistry (2021)

- Has generative artificial intelligence solved inverse materials design? Matter (2024)