About
Dr. Francisco Martin-Martinez is Senior Lecturer in Natural Sciences and Computational Chemistry at King's College London, and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2029 to 2024 he was Senior Lecturer at the Chemistry Deparment of Swansea University, where he started his research group focused on nature-learned matter.
After transitioning to King's College London, he kept an honorary position with Swansea University, being actively involved in projects on organic photovoltacis, self-healing asphalt, or designer biochars for electrodes inenergy storage, or soil remediation, among others. His research spans Density Functional Theory (DFT), Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, Machine Learning (ML), and hydrothermal processing of biomass.
Dr. Francisco Martin-Martinez also advocates for social justice and socially-directed science and technology, collaborating with Station1, an educational non-profit that fosters social-driven innovation.
In 2022, he was selected as Google Research Innovator, because of his work on computational chemistry, and he is working with Google Cloud on chemical reactivity predictions.
Outside academia, he is member of the advisory board of 2050 materials, a data-driven materials design platform, and Science Policity collaborator for the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK). He has also served as President and Vice-president of the Association of Spanish Scientist in the USA (ECUSA).
More information: link to research group