James Cumby
Senior Lecturer In Inorganic Chemistry at The University of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Cumby is a Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh with a decade of experience probing the electronic, ionic and magnetic behavior of metal oxide-fluoride materials. He combines hands-on synthesis, crystallography and magnetometry with computational modelling and data-driven approaches to uncover new functional materials for energy and electronic applications. His work spans teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on functional materials and sustainable energy storage alongside research-led supervision and proposal writing. Notably, his background in charge-ordered oxides and low-dimensional magnetic systems means he routinely bridges experimental diffraction techniques with DFT and statistical analysis to reveal subtle structure–property relationships.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Chemistry at University of Birmingham
English
Github Skills (2)
chemistry3
python3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CumbyLab/gridrdf
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Code for calculating grouped representation of interatomic distances (GRID) from crystal structures, and applying this in machine learning models.
Contributions:2 releases, 78 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
jcumby/PIEFACE
Feb 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 157 commits, 48 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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