DrJarvist Frost

I’m an electronic structure theorist. I specialise in writing bespoke computer code to build models which represent messy, disordered materials. These materials are more difficult to simulate than perfect crystals because the symmetry that normally gives physics such predictive power are broken.

I find the mixture of statistical physics (all those atoms jiggling and wiggling!) and quantum mechanics (all those electrons zooming around) really exciting to imagine and simulate. This work will help us design the materials of the future.

Currently I am working in three main areas: photovoltaics (sunlight to electricity); batteries (storing renewable energy for when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow); and drugs (particularly commercially neglected chemotherapy areas such as antibacterials).