Aron Walsh | |
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| Born | Dublin, Ireland |
| Education | Trinity College Dublin (BSc) (PhD) |
| Known for | Perovskite solar cells, Thermoelectrics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry, Materials science |
| Workplaces | Imperial College London, University of Bath, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
Aron Walsh is a chemist working in the fields of computational chemistry and materials science.
Walsh received his undergraduate degree in computational chemistry and physics from Trinity College Dublin. He went on to complete his PhD in chemistry at the same institution. His postdoctoral research included a Marie Curie Fellowship at University College London and a fellowship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States.
Walsh began his academic career as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Bath, where he went on to become a professor. He is a professor at Imperial College London leading the Materials Design Group.
Walsh has conducted research on solar power and solar cell development. He has also published on stable crystal structures for manufacturing. Walsh's research integrates quantum mechanics with data-driven machine learning and multi-scale modelling approaches. Walsh has served as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).
As of January 2026, Walsh is the Chief Scientific Officer for CuspAI, a start-up company that uses artificial intelligence to help discover new materials for industrial uses.
In a recent paper of his own [Walsh] tried to calculate how many stable crystals incorporating four chemical elements (so-called quaternaries) might be potentially manufacturable.