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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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Now so many people have joined bluesky recently, I thought I would reintroduce myself

I'm Martijn, 🇳🇱 & 🇬🇧, living in the 🇬🇧, and working in the area of computational materials chemistry at University College London.

#chemsky #compchem
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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...
Developing Machine Learning Models for Excited States Properties in Molecular Organic Crystals
ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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...
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
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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
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
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
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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...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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 @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social seminar this afternoon at UCL on machine learning forcefields by Alexandre Tkatchenko #compchem
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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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
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Reminder that the deadline to apply to these PDRA positions is 11th November.
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 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
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 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).
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
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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
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A good couple of days catching up on the latest Turbomole developments in beautiful Augsburg #compchem
October 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
October 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Delighted to have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize from @leverhulme.ac.uk thank you for the recognition and support from the Trust throughout my career, and to my collaborators, colleagues and all the researchers who worked in the group ❤️
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Congratulations to Eimear on passing her PhD viva this afternoon! Thanks to Keith Butler and Alex Ganose for examining.

#compchem #chemsky
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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🚨 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
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
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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In the early days of quantum chemistry, before we had computers to calculate the shapes of electron orbitals, one man invented a mechanical machine that simulated their shapes. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
The simple machine that visualised atomic orbitals
In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to the Schrödinger equation
www.chemistryworld.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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There's still time to join us in Edinburgh for the Emerging materials for optoelectronics applications Faraday Discussion! #Chemsky

🚨 ORAL ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit yours by 27 October 2025

📅 Mark your calendars for 1 - 3 July 2026

More info ➡
www.rsc.org/events/detai...

@rsc.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
October 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM