Shayantan (Shay) Chaudhuri joined the Hirst Group in September 2023 as a Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry. His project focuses on using quantum chemistry methods to characterise and accelerate covalent drug design. He completed his PhD and a short postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick, where he worked on the computational simulation of metal nucleation on diamond electrodes and the property-driven generative design of functional organic molecules and metal nanoparticles. His other interests include DFT-based methods, materials science, and machine learning.