Felix Mocanu

Biography

Felix is a Research Associate working on digital reticular chemistry.

He is a graduate of Natural Sciences and has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, as a member of Churchill College.

His PhD was part of the CDT in Computational Methods for Materials Science where he worked on developing machine-learned interatomic potentials for phase-change memory materials used in neuromorphic computing applications.

He has held postdoctoral positions working on:

• The atomistic modelling of semiconductor quantum-dots (CAPE, Cambridge) for display and smart-textile technologies as part of the ERC "1D-Neon" project.
• Low-temperature anomalies in glassy systems (LPENS, Paris), as part of the Simons Foundation collaboration on "Cracking the glass problem" and ERC "Glass Universality" projects.
• High-energy density cathode materials for Li-ion batteries (Materials, Oxford) as part of the Faraday Institution "CATMAT" project.

His interests include:

• Quantum mechanical modelling of atomistic systems
• Statistical mechanics of disordered systems
• AI for Science