Personal statement
I am a Reader in Chemistry at the University of Stratchlyde. I was born in London, but grew up in Cumbria in north west England. After obtaining a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield, I worked as a synthesis chemist for Norbrook Laboratories before reading my PhD in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Between 2008 and 2011, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark and then at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. In 2012 I was awarded a Marie Curie Research Fellowship and returned to the UK to join the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde. I started as a Lecturer in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 2014. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2019, and to Reader in 2022.
Research interests
The main focus of my research is the development and application of molecular simulation and molecular informatics methods to solve industrially relevant problems at the interface between biochemistry and chemical physics. Recent examples have included the development of new methods for computational drug discovery (in collaboration with AstraZeneca, GSK, and Pfizer) and the design of an enzyme for use in food manufacturing (in collaboration with Chr. Hansen A/S). I am Founding Director of the cancer diagnostics company, Dxcover (formerly ClinSpec Diagnostics Ltd)
Professional activities
- AI for Drug Discovery
- Speaker
- 8/11/2022
- Machine learning from continuous functions: applications to solvation thermodynamics and cancer diagnostics
- Speaker
- 5/9/2022
- Solvation Descriptors for Modelling Chromatographic Retention Times
- Speaker
- 22/2/2022
- Engage with Strathclyde 2021
- Invited speaker
- 20/5/2021
- Engage with Strathclyde 2021
- Invited speaker
- 20/5/2021
- 2020 ScotChem Computational Chemistry Virtual Symposium
- Participant
- 26/8/2020
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Projects
- Afon Technology. Short Project
- Palmer, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Fyfe, Calum
- Reid, Marc (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator) Fyfe, Calum (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Taylor, Madeleine
- Palmer, David (Principal Investigator) Reid, Marc (Co-investigator) Taylor, Madeleine (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Development of molecular-solvent interaction descriptors to improve accuracy of Quantitative Structure Retention Relationship model
- Palmer, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
- Solvation thermodynamics of non-aqueous solvent in the 3D Reference Interaction Site Model (3D-RISM).
- Palmer, David (Principal Investigator)
- 256000 CPU hours awarded on Cirrus (EPSRC Tier-2 National HPC Facility at University of Edinburgh)
- 27-Jan-2021 - 27-Jan-2022
- Understanding the Reliability and Transferability of Machine Learning
- Nelson, David (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator) Reid, Marc (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
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