Biography

Michail Stamatakis is Professor of Computational Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford Chemistry and Tutorial Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He leads a group that develops and applies multiscale computational approaches to understand how heterogeneous catalysts accelerate chemical reactions. These approaches are made broadly available in the form of open-source, documented software for the benefit of the academic community and beyond. Michail collaborates extensively with experimentalists and industry, guiding the development of superior catalysts for chemical processes relevant to energy conversion and storage, as well as sustainable chemicals manufacturing. His kinetic Monte Carlo software Zacros (http://zacros.org) is used by hundreds of researchers worldwide and his research has received awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry (Faraday Division Horizon Prize, 2022) as well as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, 2023).

Michail joined Oxford Chemistry in 2023, prior to which he was Lecturer (2012-2017), Senior Lecturer (2017-2018), Associate Professor (2018-2022) and Professor (2022-2023) in the Chemical Engineering Department at University College London (UCL). He holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2004), and a PhD from Rice University, USA (2009), and has carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Delaware, USA (2009-2012). He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).