About TYC

The Thomas Young Centre (TYC) is a dynamic and interdisciplinary alliance of London researchers operating at the forefront of science to address the challenges of society and industry through the theory and simulation of materials and molecules, or materials and molecular modelling.

We provide a framework through which we support current and future generations of researchers, fostering collaborations within our membership, with theoreticians and experimentalists outside of London, and with industry and government.

The TYC is made up of around 100 research groups from four London Colleges: Imperial College London, King’s College London, QMUL (Queen Mary University London) and UCL (University College London). The academic departments involved include Physics, Materials, Chemistry, Earth sciences, Biology, and several branches of engineering.

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Upcoming events

TYC Postgraduate Student Day 2025
11 June @ 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
The TYC Student Day is a one-day celebration of the research in theory and simulation of materials and molecules that is done by PhD students in the four London Colleges that make up the TYC (UCL, Imperial, King’s and QMUL), and Brunel University London and London South Bank University.
MMM Hub Software Spotlight: ML force fields
23 July @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Venkat Kapil from UCL will give an overview of ML force fields - their generation, use and software which can enable this (including its use on HPC/Young).
MMM Hub & UKCP Conference & User Meeting 2025
15 September @ 1:30 pm - 18 September @ 1:30 pm
We invite abstract submissions for contributed and 2-minute flash talks from across the community. We also invite participants, particularly graduate student users of the Hub, to contribute A1-size, portrait orientation posters of their research.

Highlights

Exploration of crystal chemical space using text-guided generative artificial intelligence

Interpolating numerically exact many-body wave functions for accelerated molecular dynamics

Structure and Migration Mechanisms of Oxygen Interstitial Defects in β-Ga₂O₃

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Here at the Thomas Young Centre, we strive for equality and diversity in all that we do, while remaining aware of the challenges posed in equalising the recognised representation-imbalance of minority groups throughout the scientific community.

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