Martijn Zwijnenburg
@zwijcompchem.bsky.social
Engineer pretending to be a Computational Chemist working on how light and stuff interact at University College London - husband of @jelfschem.bsky.social - all views are my own 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧
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I have a three-year PDRA position to work on the development of adaptive embedding methods. Please share this with anyone who may be interested. #CompChem www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I have a three-year PDRA position to work on the development of adaptive embedding methods. Please share this with anyone who may be interested. #CompChem www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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We lost a great legend of nanoscience and an inspirational mentor.
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Louis Brus | Arts & Sciences fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Louis Brus | Arts & Sciences fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...
January 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
We lost a great legend of nanoscience and an inspirational mentor.
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Louis Brus | Arts & Sciences fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Louis Brus | Arts & Sciences fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...
Appropriate now the Netherlands is (still) dealing with an excess of ice in the form of snow, more than in years, an article in Dutch newspaper @nrc.nl (in Dutch) on ice including some quotes by my @uclchemistry.bsky.social collegue Christoph Salzmann.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
#chemsky
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
#chemsky
Water is de vreemdste stof op aarde én een alledaags verschijnsel
Natuurkunde: Bevroren water heeft unieke eigenschappen: het drijft en is spekglad. Maar hoe kan dat? Op zoek naar het geheim van ijs.
www.nrc.nl
January 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Appropriate now the Netherlands is (still) dealing with an excess of ice in the form of snow, more than in years, an article in Dutch newspaper @nrc.nl (in Dutch) on ice including some quotes by my @uclchemistry.bsky.social collegue Christoph Salzmann.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
#chemsky
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
#chemsky
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#Postdoc (2Y) in Marseille:
Exciton transport in bioinspired DNA-templated light-harvesting networks. NEGF, exciton-vibration, decoherence; close link to experiments.
Deadline: 23/1
Start: 27/4
More info: fabienne.michelini at univ-amu.fr
#QuantumTransport #CompChemSky
Exciton transport in bioinspired DNA-templated light-harvesting networks. NEGF, exciton-vibration, decoherence; close link to experiments.
Deadline: 23/1
Start: 27/4
More info: fabienne.michelini at univ-amu.fr
#QuantumTransport #CompChemSky
January 7, 2026 at 11:20 AM
#Postdoc (2Y) in Marseille:
Exciton transport in bioinspired DNA-templated light-harvesting networks. NEGF, exciton-vibration, decoherence; close link to experiments.
Deadline: 23/1
Start: 27/4
More info: fabienne.michelini at univ-amu.fr
#QuantumTransport #CompChemSky
Exciton transport in bioinspired DNA-templated light-harvesting networks. NEGF, exciton-vibration, decoherence; close link to experiments.
Deadline: 23/1
Start: 27/4
More info: fabienne.michelini at univ-amu.fr
#QuantumTransport #CompChemSky
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We are inviting self-nominations for the 2026 @rsc-photochem.bsky.social group Early Career Researcher Lectureship, which recognises outstanding research contributions and excellence in communication by early career scientists in the area of photophysics and photochemistry. (1/N)
#chemsky
#chemsky
January 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
We are inviting self-nominations for the 2026 @rsc-photochem.bsky.social group Early Career Researcher Lectureship, which recognises outstanding research contributions and excellence in communication by early career scientists in the area of photophysics and photochemistry. (1/N)
#chemsky
#chemsky
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♻️🔬 From lab waste to catalysts and co-created learning!
We just shared our new preprint on RECOMPENSE, a student-led open science initiative that upcycles polystyrene waste into reusable catalysts for green chemistry.
📄 Read here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
#GreenChemistry #ChemEd
We just shared our new preprint on RECOMPENSE, a student-led open science initiative that upcycles polystyrene waste into reusable catalysts for green chemistry.
📄 Read here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
#GreenChemistry #ChemEd
RECOMPENSE: A Student-Led Open Science Initiative for Sustainable Polystyrene Waste Upcycling in Academic Labs
Plastic waste is a global challenge, with polystyrene (PS) among the least recycled polymers despite its widespread use in laboratories. Conventional recycling routes for PS remain economically and te...
chemrxiv.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
♻️🔬 From lab waste to catalysts and co-created learning!
We just shared our new preprint on RECOMPENSE, a student-led open science initiative that upcycles polystyrene waste into reusable catalysts for green chemistry.
📄 Read here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
#GreenChemistry #ChemEd
We just shared our new preprint on RECOMPENSE, a student-led open science initiative that upcycles polystyrene waste into reusable catalysts for green chemistry.
📄 Read here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
#GreenChemistry #ChemEd
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and my new view is that if an LLM can do it, it’s a task or form or piece of paperwork that doesn’t need to and shouldn’t exist.
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
and my new view is that if an LLM can do it, it’s a task or form or piece of paperwork that doesn’t need to and shouldn’t exist.
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I still have one PhD position available for Oct 2026 - see below for more details.
📣 PhD position now open for Oct 2026 start based at @imperialchemistry.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/PhDFDF. An interdisciplinary project combining experimental
& computational materials discovery in a collaborative Royal Society-funded team. Co-supervised by @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social.
& computational materials discovery in a collaborative Royal Society-funded team. Co-supervised by @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social.
PhD position available in Experimental and Computational Organic Materials Discovery at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD position available in Experimental and Computational Organic Materials Discovery at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I still have one PhD position available for Oct 2026 - see below for more details.
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Happy to be attending this year’s Faraday Community Poster Symposium organised by @rsc.org
A full day of flash poster presentations celebrating the latest in physical chemistry research
A full day of flash poster presentations celebrating the latest in physical chemistry research
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Happy to be attending this year’s Faraday Community Poster Symposium organised by @rsc.org
A full day of flash poster presentations celebrating the latest in physical chemistry research
A full day of flash poster presentations celebrating the latest in physical chemistry research
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I’m recruiting a PhD student through the UCL EPSRC Landscape Award (UELA) to work on machine learning models for excited-state properties in molecular organic crystals.
🔗 Project details: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj...
🔗 UELA scheme: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF708/5...
🔗 Project details: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj...
🔗 UELA scheme: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF708/5...
Developing Machine Learning Models for Excited States Properties in Molecular Organic Crystals
ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I’m recruiting a PhD student through the UCL EPSRC Landscape Award (UELA) to work on machine learning models for excited-state properties in molecular organic crystals.
🔗 Project details: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj...
🔗 UELA scheme: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF708/5...
🔗 Project details: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj...
🔗 UELA scheme: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF708/5...
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Are you looking for an exciting project to develop novel wavefunction theory for open-shell ground and excited states in molecules?
We have an postdoctoral opening at @uclchemistry.bsky.social. Deadline 15-Dec-25.
Find out more at www.hughburton.com
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR288/r...
We have an postdoctoral opening at @uclchemistry.bsky.social. Deadline 15-Dec-25.
Find out more at www.hughburton.com
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR288/r...
Research Fellow in Theoretical Quantum Chemistry at UCL
Apply now for the Research Fellow in Theoretical Quantum Chemistry role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Are you looking for an exciting project to develop novel wavefunction theory for open-shell ground and excited states in molecules?
We have an postdoctoral opening at @uclchemistry.bsky.social. Deadline 15-Dec-25.
Find out more at www.hughburton.com
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR288/r...
We have an postdoctoral opening at @uclchemistry.bsky.social. Deadline 15-Dec-25.
Find out more at www.hughburton.com
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR288/r...
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With early-career and established scientists in attendance, from different sub-disciplines of theoretical and computational chemistry, our @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org #FD_ExcitedStates is an ideal forum to share what you’re working on.
Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky
Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
With early-career and established scientists in attendance, from different sub-disciplines of theoretical and computational chemistry, our @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org #FD_ExcitedStates is an ideal forum to share what you’re working on.
Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky
Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky
In our recent paper in Nanoscale (doi.org/10.1039/D5NR...) we find that the optical properties of the ligand terminated zincblende cadmium sulfide nanoparticles we study strongly depend on the exact nature of the ligands. (1/N) #chemsky #compchem
Our work discussing GW-BSE calculations on CdS zincblende 'quantum dots' is now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #compchem
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In our recent paper in Nanoscale (doi.org/10.1039/D5NR...) we find that the optical properties of the ligand terminated zincblende cadmium sulfide nanoparticles we study strongly depend on the exact nature of the ligands. (1/N) #chemsky #compchem
Our work discussing GW-BSE calculations on CdS zincblende 'quantum dots' is now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #compchem
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Our work discussing GW-BSE calculations on CdS zincblende 'quantum dots' is now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #compchem
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📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Flow | Andrea Laybourn
Interested in
#flowchemistry?
#crystallography?
#MOFs?
📣 Fully funded PhD available in our group 📣Title: Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive MOFs in Flow
Based in the School of Chemistr...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
Interesting Thomas Graham lecture on plastic electronics by Prof. Bob Schroeder in advance of tonight's annual @uclchemistry.bsky.social lab dinner. #chemsky
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Interesting Thomas Graham lecture on plastic electronics by Prof. Bob Schroeder in advance of tonight's annual @uclchemistry.bsky.social lab dinner. #chemsky
Interesting @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social seminar this afternoon at UCL on machine learning forcefields by Alexandre Tkatchenko #compchem
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Interesting @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social seminar this afternoon at UCL on machine learning forcefields by Alexandre Tkatchenko #compchem
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More blog catchup: a closer look at the “no need to stir a lot of organic chemistry reactions” data. This topic gets bench chemists all . . . Well, you know:
Reaction Stirring, Part Two
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
More blog catchup: a closer look at the “no need to stir a lot of organic chemistry reactions” data. This topic gets bench chemists all . . . Well, you know:
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Reminder that the deadline to apply to these PDRA positions is 11th November.
🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery.
Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning
🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)
#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning
🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)
#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry at Imperial College London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry is available, as advertised on jobs.a...
jobs.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reminder that the deadline to apply to these PDRA positions is 11th November.
Congratulations to Teo Cobas Freire from the Shluger group on passing his PhD viva this afternoon!
Many thanks to Chiara Gattinoni for sharing the work of examining Teo's thesis.
#compchem
Many thanks to Chiara Gattinoni for sharing the work of examining Teo's thesis.
#compchem
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Congratulations to Teo Cobas Freire from the Shluger group on passing his PhD viva this afternoon!
Many thanks to Chiara Gattinoni for sharing the work of examining Teo's thesis.
#compchem
Many thanks to Chiara Gattinoni for sharing the work of examining Teo's thesis.
#compchem
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What a great paper from Stefan Grimme's group describing a new and improved database of solvation free energies and partition coefficients. And, so nice to see SMD still holding its own, lo these 16 years later... 😄 #ChemSky #CompChem
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
What a great paper from Stefan Grimme's group describing a new and improved database of solvation free energies and partition coefficients. And, so nice to see SMD still holding its own, lo these 16 years later... 😄 #ChemSky #CompChem
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Good @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social symposium this afternoon on the modelling of battery cathodes and solid-state electrolytes.
Thanks to Marie-Liesse, Alex and Ben for coming to London and present their work.
#chemsky #compchem
Thanks to Marie-Liesse, Alex and Ben for coming to London and present their work.
#chemsky #compchem
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Good @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social symposium this afternoon on the modelling of battery cathodes and solid-state electrolytes.
Thanks to Marie-Liesse, Alex and Ben for coming to London and present their work.
#chemsky #compchem
Thanks to Marie-Liesse, Alex and Ben for coming to London and present their work.
#chemsky #compchem
Next Thursday afternoon, 30/10, the @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social is organising a symposium in London on modelling battery materials with as speakers Marie-Liesse Doublet (Montpellier), Alex Squires (Birmingham) and Benjamin Morgan (Bath).
TYC Symposium: Batteries - THOMAS YOUNG CENTRE
Marie-Liesse Doublet, Montpelier - The Mirage of Anionic Redox for High-Energy Batteries Alexander Squires, Birmingham - Mixed-anion NaTaOxCl6-2x oxychlorides: From crystalline to amorphous networks f...
thomasyoungcentre.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Next Thursday afternoon, 30/10, the @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social is organising a symposium in London on modelling battery materials with as speakers Marie-Liesse Doublet (Montpellier), Alex Squires (Birmingham) and Benjamin Morgan (Bath).
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Researchers in next generation #batteries -- last few days to get together an abstract for the Faraday Discussion conference/journal.
Get your latest research in front of peers and leading experts.
Our Faraday Discussion #FD_Batteries will focus on Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) on reactive lithium metal anodes and beyond – drive the conversation with your research.
Submit an oral abstract ➡️ rsc.li/batteries-fd2026
#ChemSky
Our Faraday Discussion #FD_Batteries will focus on Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) on reactive lithium metal anodes and beyond – drive the conversation with your research.
Submit an oral abstract ➡️ rsc.li/batteries-fd2026
#ChemSky
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Researchers in next generation #batteries -- last few days to get together an abstract for the Faraday Discussion conference/journal.