We are delight to announce that three HetSys students were awarded prizes at the recent Midlands Computational Chemistry Meeting held in Manchester.

This meeting, organised by the Chilton Group in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester is designed for PhD students and PDRAs to present talks and posters as well listen to keynote talks from notable academics in the field of Computational Chemistry.

Joe Gilkes (Cohort 2) was awarded first poster prize for: Stacking the odds: Distribution-biased generative deep learning for targeted design of organic electronics

Omar Adesida (Cohort 2) was awarded second poster prize for: Exploring the Phase Space of Hard Sphere Dimers Using Nested Sampling

And Idil Ismail (Cohort 1) was awarded second prize for her talk: High throughput screening of mechanistic hypotheses using machine learning and multi criteria decision making