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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
    PIMD MOOC
    Tutorials for massive open online course: Path Integrals in Atomistic Modeling
    [link]
  • 2015-now
    i-PI
    A modern code for performing quantum-mechanical simulations
    [link]
  • 2015-now
    PIMD-TUTORIAL
    Tutorial on performing path-integral simulations using the i-PI code
    [link]

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Reading, Running, Cricket, and Cooking