Professor Mike Payne
- Professor of Computational Physics
- Fellow of Pembroke College
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Professor Mike Payne holds the Chair of Computational Physics in the University of Cambridge. He has worked on first principles total energy calculations since 1985, is the author of the first principles total energy pseudopotential code CASTEP and has been involved in the development of the linear scaling code ONETEP and the LOTF (Learn-On-The-Fly) hybrid modelling scheme. He was the 23rd most highly cited Physical Scientist in the UK between 1990 and 1999 – 2,869 citations (Institute for Scientific Information). He has published more than 280 papers which have had over 35,000 citations and his CASTEP software package has cumulative sales of $40million.
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Over the last 30 years the combination of more powerful computers combined with better theoretical and numerical methods has allowed us to routinely apply quantum mechanical methods to compute a vast range of properties of molecules and materials. For instance, to determine the most stable crystal structure for a particular combination of atoms even when this is not known experimentally. My group has played a leading role in this progress and continues to focus on the development of new tools and technologies which are designed to be accessible to all researchers.