Pavlo O. Dral

Pavlo O. Dral

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, China

Pavlo O. Dral is a Full Professor at Xiamen University and an Assistant Dean in international admissions matters, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University. His research is focused on accelerating and improving quantum chemistry with artificial intelligence/machine learning.

Pavlo Dral is a founder of the MLatom package for atomistic machine learning simulations and a co-founder of the Xiamen Atomistic Computing Suite. In 2021, he was awarded an Outstanding Youth (Overseas) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Pavlo Dral did his PhD with Prof. Tim Clark at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 2010–2013, postdoc with Prof. Walter Thiel at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in 2013–2019.

More information is available on Dral’s group website dr-dral.com.

Invited talk title: Making quantum chemistry more accessible with machine learning.
Abstract available here.