CV
My CV can be found here
Selected talks
Koopmans functionals: How satisfying piecewise linearity can yield reliable band structures
Psi-k 2025 Conference, Lausanne, August 2025 (invited)
Koopmans functionals: Baking localised charged excitation energies into DFT
CECAM workshop “Beyond ground state simulations: Navigating challenges in excited states of molecules and materials”, Lausanne, November 2024 (invited)
koopmans: an open-source package for accurately predicting spectral properties
Advanced Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial: Hubbard and Koopmans functionals from linear response, Pavia, August 2023 (video)
koopmans: an open-source package for accurately predicting spectral properties
DFT2022, Brussels, September 2022
Advanced Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial: Hubbard and Koopmans functionals from linear response
Online, 2022 (video)
koopmans: an open-source package for accurately predicting spectral properties
9th Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory Workshop: Prospects and Applications, Benasque, October 2022 (invited)
Quantum Theory of Materials Seminar
Dublin, 2021 (invited) (video)
Accurately predicting electron affinities with Koopmans spectral functionals
APS March Meeting, March 2021
Correcting the failings of DFT: DFT+U, Koopmans spectral functionals, and dynamical mean field theory
Quantum Fluids in Isolation Seminar Series, Boston College, Newton MA (via zoom), December 2020
Advances in linear-scaling DFT and DMFT for biological applications
New Generation in Strongly Correlated Electrons Systems 2017, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, September 2017
Teaching
EPFL
- Masters-level Atomistic and quantum simulations of materials (lab demonstrator, 2021–2026)
University of Cambridge
- Third-year Thermal and Statistical Physics (supervisor, 2017)
- Second-year Physics A (Experimental Methods; Oscillations, Waves and Optics; Quantum Physics; Condensed Matter Physics) (supervisor, 2016)
- worksheet of bonus quantum mechanics questions
- First-year physics (supervisor, 2015)
University of Otago
- First-year Biological Physics (lab demonstrator, 2013)
PhD thesis
My PhD thesis is accessible via Cambridge’s repository and can be found here
PhD thesis template
A LaTeX template for theses can be found on bitbucket:
git clone git@bitbucket.org:elinscott/thesis_template.git