Professor David Wales

Professor of Chemical Physics at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

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Professor of Chemical Physics, University of Cambridge

David Wales is Professor of Chemical Physics at University of Cambridge. His research investigates energy landscapes, with applications to chemical biology, spectroscopy, clusters, solids and surfaces. Wales is the author of the textbook Energy Landscapes: Applications to Clusters, Biomolecules and Glasses and a co-author of Introduction to Cluster Chemistry with Michael Mingos.

Having studied at Cambridge for his BA and PhD, he went to the University of Chicago for postdoctoral research, returning to Cambridge in 1990 for a research fellowship at Downing College, was a Lloyd's of London Tercentenary Fellow in 1991, and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 1991 to 1998.

Wales was awarded the Meldola Medal and Prize in 1992 and the Tilden Prize in 2015, 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 in 2016 and is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.