David J. Wales
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| Born | David John Wales September 21, 1963 [1] |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD, ScD) |
| Thesis | Some theoretical aspects of cluster chemistry (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Anthony J. Stone |
| Other academic advisors | R. Stephen Berry |
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David John Wales (born 1963)[1] FRS[4] FRSC is a Professor of Chemical Physics, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.[5]
Education
Wales was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded an open scholarship to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[3] receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985. He went on to complete a PhD on cluster chemistry, awarded in 1988[6] for research supervised by Anthony J. Stone. In 2004 he was awarded a ScD degree from Cambridge.[4]
Career and research
During 1989, Wales as an English-Speaking Union Lindemann Trust Fellow at the University of Chicago, doing postdoctoral research supervised by R. Stephen Berry. He returned to a research fellowship at Downing College, Cambridge in 1990, was a Lloyd's of London Tercentenary Fellow in 1991, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF) from 1991 to 1998. He was appointed a Lecturer in Cambridge in 1998.[4]
Wales research investigates energy landscapes, with applications to chemical biology, spectroscopy, clusters, solids and surfaces.[4][7][8][9] Wales is the author of the textbook Energy Landscapes: Applications to Clusters, Biomolecules and Glasses[10][11] and a co-author of Introduction to Cluster Chemistry with Michael Mingos.[12]
His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).[13]
Awards and honours
Wales was awarded the Meldola Medal and Prize in 1992 and the Tilden Prize in 2015,[3] both by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was a Baker Lecturer at Cornell University in 2005, and the Inaugural Henry Frank Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. Wales was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016[4] and is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[when?]
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