James Kermode is Professor of Materials Modelling in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, where he is also currently serving as Head of Research (Deputy Head of School). He directs the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems (HetSys) and the Warwick Centre for Predictive Modelling (WCPM). His research group develops multiscale materials modelling algorithms and the software that implements them, with a particular focus on machine learning and data-driven approaches, and on quantifying the uncertainty in the output of electronic structure and atomistic models. He is also active in applying parameter-free modelling techniques to make quantitative predictions of “chemomechanical” materials failure processes where stress and chemistry are tightly coupled, e.g. near the tip of a propagating crack, where local bond-breaking chemistry is driven by long-range stress fields.
