DrLaura Ratcliff

I am an EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Materials. My research centres around the development of new methods for first principles materials modelling, with a focus on simulating large systems containing several hundred to a few tens of thousands of atoms. I'm a developer of three codes which use density functional theory, and am interested both in the development of software which enables the efficient use of massively parallel computers, and in the application of such software to a range of materials and properties.

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Biography
04/2017 - 11/2017: Research Associate, Department of Materials, Imperial College London
03/2014 - 03/2017: Postdoctoral Appointee, Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA
02/2012 - 02/2014: Postdoctoral Researcher, L_Sim Laboratory of Atomistic Simulation, CEA Grenoble, France
10/2011 - 12/2011: Research Assistant, Department of Materials, Imperial College London
10/2008 - 09/2011: PhD, Department of Materials, Imperial College London
10/2004 - 06/2008: MPhys Theoretical Physics (with a year in Europe), University of York
09/2006 - 05/2007: Erasmus exchange, L’Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France