Background:

Jamie read for his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, specialising in Physics.  He stayed at Cambridge to do a PhD in the Department of Chemistry on the structure of amorphous materials, graduating in 2006.

He was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, before coming back to the UK in 2008 to take up a post at the Department of Chemistry in University College London, working on the computer simulation of bioactive silicate and phosphate glasses for medical applications.  In 2013, he was promoted to Senior Research Fellow.

Jamie joined the Department of Materials in February 2015 as a Lecturer in the field of ceramic biomaterials, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018 and Reader in 2024. He is currently the Programme Leader for the undergraduate Materials courses.

Qualifications:

• PhD Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2006
• MSci, BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2002

Outline of main research interests:

• Amorphous and glassy materials for biomedical applications
• Computer simulation of glass and ceramic materials
• Relationships between atomic structure and bioactivity
• Sustainable metallurgy
• Development of interatomic force fields for accurate simulation

Grants and contracts:

• 2024-28, “Artificial Intelligence X-ray Imaging for Sustainable Metal Manufacturing”, EPSRC” 
• 2023-26, “Materials Chemistry HEC Consortium (MCC)”, ESPRC” 
• 2020-23 “Computer modelling of biomaterial dissolution”, Leverhulme Trust
• 2018-22, “High-end computing Materials Chemistry Consortium”, EPSRC
• 2018-22, “Computer modelling of the thermal conductivity of polymer systems”, PhD studentship
• 2017-21, “Hybrid scaffolds incorporating bioactive ceramics/polymers”, NPIF PhD studentship
• 2014-16, “Computer-aided design of degradable Mg-based metallic glasses for safe medical implantation”, EPSRC

Current teaching responsibilities:

• MPA221 Thermodynamics and Its Applications
• MPB311 Materials Modelling

Current administrative responsibilities:

• University Assessor
• Undergraduate Programme Leader

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External Collaborators: 

• University of Oxford
• Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Science and Technology Facilities Council

External roles and appointments:

• Executive Committee member and Biomaterials theme leader, UK High-performance Computing Materials Chemistry Consortium
• Member, Technical Committees 03 and 04, International Commission on Glass
• Member, Basic Science and Technology Committee, Society for Glass Technology
• Member, ESPRC Peer Review College

Professional affiliations:

• Fellow, Society for Glass Technology