Professor David O. Scanlon is the Chair of Computational Materials Design at the Department of Chemistry, UCL and at Diamond Light Source, with special interest in computationally-driven materials design and characterisation. His work is at the forefront of the global effort to explore new materials based on computations and to advance the capacity of first-principles calculations to predict materials properties. He has published over 220 articles with over 14000 citations. He was awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2015 for the “development and application of computational techniques to understanding and predicting the properties of functional semi-conductors for energy applications”, and the RSC Materials Chemistry Division Early Career Award in 2021 for "contributions to materials modelling of conducting oxides". He is a Fellow of the RSC and sits on the advisory board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Materials Advances, ACS Applied Energy Materials and Cell Reports: Physical Science. He is an ERC Starting Grant holder (2018-2023), his research has been funded by the EPSRC, the Faraday Institution (FI), and Innovate UK. David has graduated 6 PhD students, and he currently leads a research team of 5 PDRA, 13 PhD students and 11 Masters students.