Kim E. Jelfs is a computational chemist based at

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

who was one of the recipients of the

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in 2018. She develops software to predict the structures and properties of molecular systems for renewable energy.

Early life and education

Jelfs studied chemistry at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. For her final year project, Jelfs worked at the

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. She earned her PhD in 2010, working with Ben Slater on modelling the growth of

zeolitic Zeolites are microporous, crystalline aluminosilicate materials commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts. They mainly consist of silicon, aluminium, oxygen, and have the general formula ･y where is either a metal ion or H+. These pos ...

materials.

Research and career

After completing her PhD Jelfs joined the

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, working with Stefan Bromley. She moved to the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

, working as a postdoctoral researcher with Matthew Rosseinsky and

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. At the

Jelfs characterised the structure of porous materials. She was funded by an

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Programme Grant. In 2013 she joined

as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. In 2015 she was awarded a

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Starting Grant, which provides €1.5 million funding for five years of materials discovery. Her research will consider porous molecules, organic small molecules and polymers. She uses computational models to predict the relationships between structure and properties. The models can also be used to predict the properties of amorphous frameworks and porous molecules. Her group identified the 20 most probable topologies for porous cage molecules, which can be synthesised through

dynamic covalent chemistry Dynamic covalent chemistry (DCvC) is a synthetic strategy employed by chemists to make complex supramolecular assemblies from discrete molecular building blocks. DCvC has allowed access to complex assemblies such as covalent organic frameworks ...

. In 2018 Jelfs was awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

. She was also awarded an

President's Award for Outstanding Early Career Research. In 2019, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Chemistry.

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