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General Information
Full Name | Venkat Kapil |
Date of Birth | 24th August 1993 |
Languages | Hindi, English |
Education
- 2015 - 2020
Ph.D. in Materials Science
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Thesis with Prof. Michele Ceriotti
- Thesis on "Nuclear Quantum Effects - Fast and Accurate"
- Awarded the "Early Career Mobility Fellowship" by SNSF (2019)
- 2010 - 2015
5-year Integrated M.S. in Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India
- Thesis with Prof. Nishant N. Nair
- Thesis on "Sampling Free Energy Landscapes as Slices"
- Best Poster Prize for thesis work at CPMD Meeting in Chicago (2016)
- Charpak Scholarship Awardee (2013)
- Academic Excellence Awardee (2014)
Experience
- 04/2022 - 04/2025
Oppenheimer Research Fellow (research staff)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
- 01/2022 - 04/2025
Sydney Harvey Junior Research Fellow
Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 10/2020 - 04/2022
Visiting Research Fellow (funded by SNSF)
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
- 10/2015 - 08/2020
Doctoral Assistant
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- 04/2014 - 06/2015
Research Assistant (masters' thesis)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- 05/2013 - 08/2013
Research Intern
Chimie ParisTech, France
- 05/2012 - 08/2012
Research Intern
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Mumbai, India
Grants and Awards
- 2021
Oppenheimer Research Fellowship
100,000 GBP (ca.)
36 months
Awarded the Oppenheimer Research Fellowship by the University of Cambridge - 2020
Sydney Harvey Junior Research Fellowship
3 years
Awarded the Sydney Harvey Junior Research Fellowship by Churchill College, University of Cambridge - 2020
Swiss National Supercomputing Center
900,000 and 100,000 GPU node hours
10 million CPU hours (ca.)
Principal investigator for two computational projects at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center - 2019
Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship
75,000 CHF (ca.)
18 months
Awarded the Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation - 2018
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Principal investigator for 4 experimental proposals at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
- 2014
Academic Excellence Award
Academic Excellence Awardee at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- 2013
Charpak Scholarship of Excellence
Charpak Scholar of Excellence Awardee by the Embassy of France in India for a research-internship in Chimie Paristech, France
Organization of Workshops, Schools, and Conferences
- 2023
The Inaugural Lennard-Jones Centre Meeting: Theory and Molecular Simulation in the Physical Sciences
co-organizer along with David Wales, Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, Stephen Cox, Gábor Csányi, Chris Pickard and Chuck Witt
[link]
- 2022
Interfacial Water: Structure and Dynamics session at The Psi-k 2022 Conference
co-organizer along with Ji Chen, Axel Gross, and Angelos Michaelides
[link]
- 2021
Psi-k Young and Early Career Researcher’s Workshop on Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
co-organizer along with Max Veit, Elena Gelžinytė, Felix-Cosmin Mocanu, and Federico Grasselli
[link]
- 2021
Psi-k and CECAM Summer School on Path Integral Quantum Mechanics: From the Basics to the Latest Developments
co-organizer with Michele Ceriotti, Yair Litman, Thomas Markland, and Mariana Rossi
[link]
Development of Scientific Software / Tutorials
- 2020-now
- 2015-now
- 2015-now
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Reading, Running, Cricket, and Cooking