Simon Rihm
Research Student
Biography
Simon is a PhD student in the CoMo group and a member of Fitzwilliam College. He completed a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Chemical and Process Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Prior to his PhD, he has worked at the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES), researching methods of carbon dioxide utilization via electrolysis. His current research interests include Kinetic Modelling, Lab Automation, Semantic Web Technologies, reticular chemistry, and industrial decarbonisation.Research Themes
Recent Preprints
345: Leveraging General Molecular Fragments to Expand the Design Space of Metal-Organic Polyhedra
Patrick Butler, Simon D. Rihm, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 345, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2026.
343: Ontology-to-tools compilation for executable semantic control of large language models
Xiaochi Zhou, Patrick Butler, Changxuan Yang, Simon D. Rihm, Thitikarn Angkanaporn, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 343, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2026.
341: Computational Modelling Workflows for Metal-Organic Polyhedra in The World Avatar
Patrick Butler, Arravind Subramanian, Simon D. Rihm, Ari F. Fischer, Tej S. Choksi, Aleksandar Kondinski, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 341, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2025.
Patrick Butler, Simon D. Rihm, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 340, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2025.
Recent Publications
Patrick Butler, Simon D. Rihm, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 66(7), 3933-3943, (2026).
Product design, synthesis, and lab automation with The World Avatar
Simon D. Rihm, Aleksandar Kondinski, and Markus Kraft, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 51, 101203, (2026).
Automated Assembly Modeling of Metal-Organic Polyhedra
Aleksandar Kondinski, Andrea M OyarzĂșn, Simon D. Rihm, Jiaru Bai, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 28(26), 202500115, (2025).
Extraction of chemical synthesis information using The World Avatar
Simon D. Rihm, Fabio Saluz, Aleksandar Kondinski, Jiaru Bai, Patrick Butler, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Digital Discovery 4(10), 2893-2909, (2025).
Contact Details
| Email: | sdr39@cam.ac.uk_delete_this_bit |
| Address: | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology University of Cambridge West Cambridge Site Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS United Kingdom |