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Volker Deringer

@vlderinger.bsky.social
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Computational chemist, curious about the atomic-scale structure of materials & ML for chemistry. Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Oxford

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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Thank you very much indeed @rociomer.bsky.social and @smnlssn.bsky.social for the opportunity to visit Chalmers, and to speak in this series! #compchem
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🎓 Applications are open for the IMAT Centre for Doctoral Training at @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social & @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social! Among many exciting topics, have a look at our projects P10 and P13, both combining MLIPs and #compchem with close experimental collaborations: imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
#PsiK2025 selfie! Super to see the community so active & so much exciting #compchem research going on. And of course delighted to be here with members of our group 🙂
A selfie of Volker and team members in front of the conference venue on Wednesday evening
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COSMO Lab @labcosmo.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🚨 #machinelearning for #compchem goodies from our 🧑‍🚀 team incoming! After years of work it's time to share. Go check arxiv.org/abs/2508.15704 and/or metatensor.org to learn about #metatensor and #metatomic. What they are, what they do, why you should use them for all of your atomistic ML projects 🔍.
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🧪🤖 Our first paper on autoplex is published! We describe an automated #compchem framework for building MLIP training datasets, and show a range of application examples. A pleasure to collaborate on this with @molecularxtal.bsky.social & team. Thank you everyone! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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An automated framework for exploring and learning potential-energy surfaces - Nature Communications
Machine learning is revolutionising materials modelling but requires high-quality training data. Here, the authors introduce autoplex, an open framework automating exploration and fitting of potential...
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📢pls share We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Mechanical properties of graphene oxide from machine-learning-driven simulations – now online in ChemComm (@chemcomm.rsc.org)! In this #compchem study, we explore the links between atomistic structure and mechanical behaviour in GO. Congratulations Zak & Bowen 🙂 Read more: doi.org/10.1039/D5CC...
The table-of-contents image for the paper mentioned in the post – showing an atomistic structural model of graphene oxide on the left, and stress–strain plots on the right
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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Excited to share in @nature.com today: Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - detecting the most subtle changes in light polarization over time with unprecedented sensitivity. Grateful for the team that made this possible!😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chirality #light
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Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - Nature
A high-sensitivity, broadband, transient, full-Stokes spectroscopy setup is demonstrated, which can detect quickly varying small signals from chiral emitters.
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Read more about our MLIP distillation preprint in John’s thread! 🙂 #compchem #chemsky
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Congratulations to the group‘s MChem students Georgi, Arun, Johana, and Cecilia on completing their projects & theses! They covered a range of topics across #compchem, ML, and materials chemistry applications – well done and thank you everyone 😀
A photo of Georgi, Arun, Johana, and Cecilia, taken outdoors on a sunny day
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Graeme Day @graemeday.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org and highlighted as a #ChemSciPicks. Great work by @ffmmgg.bsky.social. Collab with @aicooper.bsky.social A Universal Foundation Model for Transfer Learning in Molecular Crystals #compchemsky #chemsky @unisouthampton.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
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Jan Hermann @hrmnn.net · 18/06/2025
🚀 After two+ years of intense research, we’re thrilled to introduce Skala — a scalable deep learning density functional that hits chemical accuracy on atomization energies and matches hybrid-level accuracy on main group chemistry — all at the cost of semi-local DFT ⚛️🔥🧪🧬
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COSMO Lab @labcosmo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🎉 DFT-accurate, with built-in uncertainty quantification, providing chemical shielding anisotropy - ShiftML3.0 has it all! Building on a successful @nccr-marvel.bsky.social-funded collaboration with LRM🧲⚛️, it just landed on the arXiv arxiv.org/html/2506.13... and on pypi pypi.org/project/shif...
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Distilling atomistic foundation models! ⚗️🧪🤖 In this #compchem preprint, we describe a general (“architecture-agnostic”) approach to creating fast, application-specific MLIP models via synthetic data – led jointly by @jla-gardner.bsky.social & @dft-dutoit.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2506.10956
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Distillation of atomistic foundation models across architectures and chemical domains
Machine-learned interatomic potentials have transformed computational research in the physical sciences. Recent atomistic `foundation' models have changed the field yet again: trained on many differen...
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
BaZrS3 is an emerging solar-cell material ☀️ In a preprint led by @biancapasca.bsky.social, we describe an ML potential that can tackle the structural complexity of amorphous and polycrystalline BaZrS3. Very happy to see this online! Read more at arxiv.org/abs/2506.01517
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Machine-learning-driven modelling of amorphous and polycrystalline BaZrS$_{3}$
The chalcogenide perovskite material BaZrS$_{3}$ is of growing interest for emerging thin-film photovoltaics. Here we show how machine-learning-driven modelling can be used to describe the material's ...
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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Alchemy Frontier Fund 2025 now open (aichemy.ac.uk/aichemy-fron...). Apply for 2-year projects of up to £1.25m to advance the frontiers of AI for chemistry. Deadline = Sept 12th 2025. Webinar to launch the fund on June 18th. For information, email: funding@aichemy.ac.uk @ukri.org #EPSRC #AI
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It was great to take part in the @cecamevents.bsky.social Flagship Workshop on “Virtual Materials Design” at @kit.edu this week – and to see Litong, Shixuan, Natascia, & @biancapasca.bsky.social present their #compchem research! 😀
A photo of Volker, Litong, Shixuan, Natascia, and Bianca outside a building at KIT where the workshop was held
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COSMO Lab @labcosmo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
📢 Running molecular dynamics with time steps up to 64fs for any atomistic system, from Al(110) to Ala2? Thanks to 🧑‍🚀 Filippo Bigi and Sanggyu Chong, with some help from Agustinus Kristiadis, this is not as crazy as it sounds. Let us briefly introduce FlashMD⚡ arxiv.org/html/2505.19...
Scheme of the GNN architecture of the FlashMD method.
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Aron ⇋ e⁻ @aronwalsh.github.io · 13/05/2025
The first release of our text-to-crystal model, Chemeleon, is out in @natcomms.nature.com 🌈 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Code: github.com/hspark1212/c... You can sample an inorganic structure in minutes on a laptop thanks to @hspark1212.bsky.social - #CompChem that gives me goosebumps!
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Exploration of crystal chemical space using text-guided generative artificial intelligence - Nature Communications
The vastness of chemical space makes discovering new materials challenging. Here, authors propose a generative AI model enabling crystal structures generation from textual descriptions, accelerating m...
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
In Vancouver for a major conference on ceramic & glass technology! Looking forward to presenting some of our recent #compchem work, and to discussing what ML interatomic potentials can do in this exciting area 🙂 ceramics.org/event/16th-p...
A photo of Vancouver on a sunny day, showing a waterfront and high-rise buildings in the background
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
graph-pes is John‘s open-source, all-round software package for fitting & fine-tuning graph-based ML interatomic potentials – do try it out, follow him for updates, and share! #chemsky #compchem 🧪
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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 #𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 on the 𝐏𝐇𝐃 & 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 level! If you are interested in #spectroscopy & #materials science for spin-/optoelectronics, please consider joining our team. Details on the positions and how to apply: www.feldmannlab.com/open-positions Sharing with your network is greatly appreciated!🙏:) #EPFL
Feldmann Lab at EPFL is hiring at PhD and Postdoc Level in Spectroscopy and Nanomaterials
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Great to see this preprint online – a data-driven study of an amorphous metal–organic framework, led by @tcnicholas.bsky.social – thanks to Tom and everyone 🙂 Comments very welcome! arxiv.org/abs/2503.24367
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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Proud to see @Kinga' Master’s project published: 𝐀𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐬𝐏𝐛(𝐂𝐥𝐱𝐁𝐫𝟏−𝐱)𝟑 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, open-access!⁣⁣ Great #collaboration with co-supervisor & friend @vlderinger.bsky.social, and thanks to @chemcomm.rsc.org for the invitation! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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An experimental data library for the full CsPb(ClxBr1−x)3 compositional series
A complete series of CsPb(ClxBr1−x)3 mixed-halide perovskites with x = 0–1 in small steps is reported, and their structural and optical properties characterised. A comparison of synthetic approaches s...
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Amorphous silicon has a seemingly random structure – and yet there is more to it, as Louise demonstrates using #compchem & ML approaches. A great collaboration with @dadrabold.bsky.social! Read more in @naturecomms.bsky.social, openly available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Signatures of paracrystallinity in amorphous silicon from machine-learning-driven molecular dynamics - Nature Communications
Conflicting theories exist on the structure of amorphous silicon. Here the authors use machine-learning-driven molecular dynamics to show that amorphous Si can accommodate a degree of local paracrysta...
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Dr Bee Hockin @beehockin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Exciting news for #chemsky - you can now follow all of your favourite @rsc.org journals on Bluesky! 🥳🧪⚗ go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Happy to finally share our review on the broad (and quickly progressing!) field of chiral solution processable semiconductors! #ChemSky ⚗️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chiral light–matter interactions in solution-processable semiconductors - Nature Reviews Chemistry
Endowing chirality onto solution-processable semiconductors unlocks new bounds for their spin and optoelectronic properties. This Review discusses the synthesis, properties, characterization methods, ...
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COSMO Lab @labcosmo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
📢 Highlighted on #PhysRevMaterials (not yet on 🦋), a little, insightful gem by 🧑‍🚀 Wei Bin, Raymond, Fede & Kevin, relevant for all of you #machinelearning electronic structure properties. Band alignment matters, but it shouldn't, so here's how to deal with it with a self-aligning loss! A short 🧵...
Title and abstract of "Adaptive energy reference for machine-learning models of the electronic density of states" by Wei Bin How, Sanggyu Chong, Federico Grasselli, Kevin K. Huguenin-Dumittan, and Michele Ceriotti - published as Phys. Rev. Materials 9, 013802 (2025)
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Janine George @molecularxtal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🤖 Interested in automated DFT or ab initio calculations for crystals or molecules? atomate2 could be your package! doi.org/10.26434/che... #compchem
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Atomate2: Modular workflows for materials science
High-throughput density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become a vital element of computational materials science, enabling materials screening, property database generation, and training of...
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In Cambridge today for a workshop on ML interatomic potentials! Photo with @jla-gardner.bsky.social, Natascia, @biancapasca.bsky.social, & Litong 🙂 #compchem
A photo of John, Natascia, Bianca, Litong, and Volker in a seminar room
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Syma Khalid @sykhalid.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So seems like the group is on a roll this month! Here’s our latest work on parametrising coarse-grained models of sugars (disaccharides) by Astrid Brandner & in collaboration with Iain Smith, @pauloctsouza.bsky.social and @cg-martini.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #glycotime
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Systematic Approach to Parametrization of Disaccharides for the Martini 3 Coarse-Grained Force Field
Sugars are ubiquitous in biology; they occur in all kingdoms of life. Despite their prevalence, they have often been somewhat neglected in studies of structure–dynamics–function relationships of macro...
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Claudio Zeni @claudiozeni.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📢 Paper + code release 📃💻 After 2 years of work, I'm excited to announce our newest paper, MatterGen, has been published in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We are also releasing all the training data, model weights, model code, and evaluation code on GitHub! github.com/microsoft/ma...
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GitHub - microsoft/mattergen: Official implementation of MatterGen -- a generative model for inorganic materials design across the periodic table that can be fine-tuned to steer the generation towards...
Official implementation of MatterGen -- a generative model for inorganic materials design across the periodic table that can be fine-tuned to steer the generation towards a wide range of property c...
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CECAM @cecamevents.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The new #CECAM program is now live! 76 exciting workshops, schools and conferences will be held across the network between April 2025 and March 2026! Explore our activities and apply to participate at: www.cecam.org/program
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Bianca Pasca @biancapasca.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
TB to September 2024: It’s been great to present a poster for the first time at the Faraday Discussion on Data-driven discovery in the chemical sciences! Heard such great ideas and comments and am excited for what’s to come #FD_Data
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Ganna (Anya) Gryn’ova 🇺🇦 @grynova.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Come be my colleague! We are recruiting an Assistant Prof in #compchem - broadly defined, all areas are welcome, the key requirement is excellence! Deadline February 2. #academicjobs @chemjobber.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLH550/a...
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Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry for Synthesis & Materials at University of Birmingham
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🎓 Applications are open for fully funded 4-year doctoral studentships within the IMAT Centre for Doctoral Training @ox.ac.uk! If you're interested in #compchem & ML, check out collaborative projects we have available with the Hayward and Steier groups, respectively: imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Congratulations Harry (and welcome to Bluesky!) 🎉 #compchem
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Wintry views by the Thames earlier today ❄️🙂
An almost monochrome landscape photo, with frost on plants
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Nature Reviews Materials @natrevmats.nature.com · 20/12/2024
Read this Perspective by @vlderinger.bsky.social, Lena Simine and collaborators, highlighting how recent advances in computational materials modelling and AI are bringing the design of amorphous materials within reach: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Meet autoplex – our approach to automated ML potential fitting, built jointly with @molecularxtal.bsky.social & team in Berlin! In this preprint, we focus on exploring structures and training potential models "from scratch" with the help of automated workflows: arxiv.org/abs/2412.16736
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An automated framework for exploring and learning potential-energy surfaces
Machine learning has become ubiquitous in materials modelling and now routinely enables large-scale atomistic simulations with quantum-mechanical accuracy. However, developing machine-learned interato...
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Can we “design” amorphous materials with useful properties? We argue that #compchem & AI are bringing us closer towards this ambitious goal: rdcu.be/d3JD6
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The amorphous state as a frontier in computational materials design
Nature Reviews Materials - Amorphous materials are increasingly central components of key technologies, but their structures remain challenging to study. This Perspective highlights how recent...
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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Just out: "A Universal Foundation Model for Transfer Learning in Molecular Crystals", trained on 706,126 molecular crystals from @ccdc.cam.ac.uk chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... Led by Minggao & Xenofon; collaboration with @graemeday.bsky.social, who provided fine-tuning data @aichemyhub.bsky.social
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Superb work by John! Follow him at @jla-gardner.bsky.social to read about his open-source software & science for ML interatomic potentials #compchem #ChemSky #CompChemSky
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Join us next year for an RSC Faraday Discussions meeting on "data-driven discovery" in chemistry! This is a special format, with papers sent in advance (!) and discussed at the meeting. All details here: rsc.li/3QdkKDz - tagging #compchem #ChemSky (and @molecularxtal.bsky.social 🙂)
A graphics provided by the RSC, indicating the name of the event ("Data-driven discovery in the chemical sciences"), time and place, and the oral abstract deadline of 22 January 2024
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Volker Deringer @vlderinger.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Thank you Janine! Looking forward to connecting with the growing #compchem / #ChemSky community on here 🙂
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