Kim E. Jelfs is a computational chemist based at Imperial College London who was one of the recipients of the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes in 2018. She develops software to predict the structures and properties of molecular systems for renewable energy.
Kim Jelfs | |
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| Alma mater | University College London |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Imperial College London University of Barcelona |
| Thesis | Modelling the growth of zeolitic materials (2010) |
Early life and education
editJelfs studied chemistry at University College London.[1] For her final year project, Jelfs worked at the Royal Institution.[2] She earned her PhD in 2010, working with Ben Slater on modelling the growth of zeolitic materials.[2][3]
Research and career
editAfter completing her PhD Jelfs joined the University of Barcelona, working with Stefan Bromley. She moved to the University of Liverpool, working as a postdoctoral researcher with Matthew Rosseinsky and Andrew Ian Cooper.[2] At the University of Liverpool Jelfs characterised the structure of porous materials.[2] She was funded by an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Programme Grant.[4][5]
In 2013 she joined Imperial College London as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.[1] In 2015 she was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant, which provides €1.5 million funding for five years of materials discovery.[6][7][8] Her research will consider porous molecules, organic small molecules and polymers.[8] She uses computational models to predict the relationships between structure and properties.[9] The models can also be used to predict the properties of amorphous frameworks and porous molecules.[9] Her group identified the 20 most probable topologies for porous cage molecules, which can be synthesised through dynamic covalent chemistry.[10]
In 2018 Jelfs was awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.[2] She was also awarded an Imperial College London President's Award for Outstanding Early Career Research.[11][12] In 2019, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Chemistry.[13]
References
edit- ^ a b "Imperial strengthens expertise in computational chemistry and drug discovery | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ a b c d e "RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ K.E., Jelfs (2010-03-28). Modelling the growth of zeolitic materials. discovery.ucl.ac.uk (Doctoral). Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Kim Jelfs - Cooper Group - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Phases 1, 2, 3 +". www.directedassembly.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Grant winners - 7 November 2013". Times Higher Education (THE). 2013-11-07. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Four Imperial academics celebrate winning European Research Council grants | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ a b "ERC FUNDED PROJECTS". ERC: European Research Council. Archived from the original on 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ a b "Research". Jelfs Computational Materials Group. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ Santolini, Valentina; Miklitz, Marcin; Berardo, Enrico; Jelfs, Kim E. (2017). "Topological landscapes of porous organic cages". Nanoscale. 9 (16): 5280–5298. doi:10.1039/C7NR00703E. hdl:10044/1/45580. ISSN 2040-3364. PMID 28397915.
- ^ "Outstanding research projects and people recognised in 2018 President's Awards | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Top honours for three Imperial chemists | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2019 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-15.