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General Information

Full Name Tom A. Young
Date of Birth July 1995
Languages English

Education

  • 2018-2021
    DPhil
    University of Oxford, England
    • Methods Towards Computational Catalyst Design
    • Supervised by Prof. F. Duarte, Prof. J. McGrady
    • No corrections. Commended by the Mathematical and Physical sciences division
    • Chapters:
      • Metallocage Catalysis
      • Solution Phase Entropy
      • autodE
      • Machine Learned Potentials
  • 2017-2018
    MSc
    University of Oxford, England
    • Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
    • First year of the TMCS (Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences) centre for doctoral training. Taught courses included advanced mathematics, numerical simulation and quantum mechanics.
    • Award: Distinction
  • 2013-2017
    MSci
    University of Bristol
    • Chemistry
    • Integrated Masters program inc. a final year dissertation on cyclic phospite ligand reactivity supervised by Prof. P. Pringle.
    • Award: 1st class (Hons)

Experience

  • 2023-
    Senior Research Software Engineer
    University College London
    • Leading full-stack projects from infrastructure to UI
  • 2022-2023
    Research Software Engineer
    University College London
    • Member of the research software development group within the Advanced Research Computing department
    • Contributing to a projects in a range of languages (Python, Java, Javascript, Rust, C++, HCL) in a wide range of domains (computer science, engineering, healthcare)
  • 2021-2022
    Post Doctoral Research Assistant
    University of Oxford
    • EPSRC-funded impact acceleration grant
    • Focused on ML and automation open-source projects