Current Position

Assistant Professor in Computational Atomic-Scale Materials Science at the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

Find out more about our work at https://www.fast-group.phy.cam.ac.uk/.

Research

Water remains the most fascinating liquid in our world. In order to provide new insights into aqueous phase behavior, I am developing machine learning methodology trained on accurate electronic structure calculations. In close collaboration with experiment, I apply these models to water in complex environments. Overall, my research aims at the modelling of aqueous systems at previously unreachable accuracy to provide reliable structural and dynamical insights into the aqueous phase.


Education

Undergraduate

  • Ruhr-University Bochum, Bachelor (2013) & Master (2015) of Science in Chemistry
  • Stanford University, Visiting graduate student (2015) in the group of Prof. Thomas Markland

Postgraduate

  • Ruhr-University Bochum, PhD (2016-2019) in the group of Prof. Dominik Marx, Title: "Properties of Hydrogen Bonding at Ultra-low Temperatures in Bosonic Quantum Solvents"
  • École Normale Supérieure, Visiting graduate student (2016) in the group of Prof. Rodolphe Vuilleumier
  • Charles University Prague, PostDoc (2019) in the group of Dr. Ondrej Marsalek
  • University College London (2020), PostDoc in the group of Prof. Angelos Michaelides

Publications

Transferability of machine learning potentials: Protonated water neural network potential applied to the protonated water hexamer
C Schran, F Brieuc, D Marx
Journal of Chemical Physics
(2021)
154
Manifestations of Local Supersolidity of $^{4}$He around a Charged Molecular Impurity
F Brieuc, C Schran, D Marx
(2020)
Transferability of machine learning potentials: Protonated water neural network potential applied to the protonated water hexamer
C Schran, F Brieuc, D Marx
(2020)
Deciphering High-Order Structural Correlations within Fluxional Molecules from Classical and Quantum Configurational Entropy
R Topolnicki, F Brieuc, C Schran, D Marx
J Chem Theory Comput
(2020)
16
Committee neural network potentials control generalization errors and enable active learning
C Schran, K Brezina, O Marsalek
The Journal of chemical physics
(2020)
153
Deciphering High-order Structural Correlations within Fluxional Molecules from Classical and Quantum Configurational Entropy
R Topolnicki, F Brieuc, C Schran, D Marx
(2020)
Converged quantum simulations of reactive solutes in superfluid helium: The Bochum perspective
F Brieuc, C Schran, F Uhl, H Forbert, D Marx
The Journal of chemical physics
(2020)
152
Committee neural network potentials control generalization errors and enable active learning
C Schran, K Brezina, O Marsalek
(2020)
Automated Fitting of Neural Network Potentials at Coupled Cluster Accuracy: Protonated Water Clusters as Testing Ground.
C Schran, J Behler, D Marx
Journal of chemical theory and computation
(2019)
16
Quantum nature of the hydrogen bond from ambient conditions down to ultra-low temperatures
C Schran, D Marx
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
(2019)
21

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