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Research

To achieve its vision, the Leverhulme Centre spans the following research themes.

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Computational materials design

Computational design is the linchpin within the Materials Design Engine here at the Leverhulme Research Centre.

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Experimental materials design

The experimental programme will interact dynamically with the computational advances in materials design from the very start of the programme.

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Intelligent automation

Automation is hugely powerful for more focused, hypothesis-driven searches, where it can accelerate the synthesis and measurement steps in our Materials Design Engine.

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Harnessing exponential knowledge growth

Our 10-year objective is for Centre researchers to work with an AI ‘research advisor’ that acts as a semantic reasoning interface with the knowledge base.

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Management research

The very management of the Centre will be an object of research led by team members from the Management School.

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Global context

Researchers trained in the Centre must understand the broader context of their work – what are the socioeconomic drivers for discovering new materials?