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title: "Aron Walsh"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Walsh"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T17:08:50.262520+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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Aron Walsh is a chemist known for his research in the fields of computational chemistry and materials science.
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== Early life and education ==
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Walsh received his undergraduate degree in computational chemistry and physics from Trinity College Dublin. He went on to complete his PhD in chemistry at the same institution.
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His postdoctoral research included a Marie Curie Fellowship at University College London and a fellowship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States.
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== Academic career ==
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Walsh began his academic career as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Bath, where he went on to become a professor. He holds a full professorship at Imperial College London leading the Materials Design Group.
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Walsh's research integrates quantum mechanics with data-driven machine learning and multi-scale modelling approaches. He has written or co-written over 500 research articles. Additionally, he serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).
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Journal of Materials Chemistry in 2017 published the first paper from Walsh's collaboration with a young research group at Kim Il-sung University, in North Korea, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund.
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== Awards and honours ==
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Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2013) by RSC.
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EU-40 Materials prize (2015) by E-MRS.
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Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2015) by RSC.
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Philip Leverhulme Prize in Chemistry (2016) by the Leverhulme Trust.
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Corday-Morgan Prize (2019) by RSC.
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== References == |