Simon Beaumont
Associate Professor In Chemistry
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Beaumont is an Associate Professor in Chemistry at Durham University with over a decade of experience in heterogeneous catalysis, combining nanomaterials and in situ spectroscopy to design greener, more selective catalytic processes. His work targets energy- and carbon-efficient transformations, valorisation of biomass and industrial wastes, and practical solutions to prevent pollution—from produced-water treatment to mitigating methane emissions in agriculture. A Cambridge-trained physical chemist with postdoctoral experience at UC Berkeley, he frequently translates mechanistic insight into applied technologies and is open to unconventional challenges, having worked on topics as varied as lunar atmospheres and water sorbents. Unusually for an academic chemist, he also has a background in systems and software engineering and pursues programming and programming-language theory in OCaml, reflecting a rare blend of experimental science and computational craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (200)
convolutional-neural-networks9
cereal9
linux9
python9
servant9
deep-learning9
machine-learning9
llvm-ir9
tensorflow9
wolfram-language8
3d-models8
theory8
neural-network8
polymorphism8
haskell8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
sebeaumont/HieDb
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Generates a references DB from .hie files
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
hie
sebeaumont/blueflow
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Navigation as experienced by the boat
Contributions:29 commits, 14 PRs, 42 pushes in 5 months
boatnavigation
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