Professor Andrew J Morris M.Phys, PhD

Dr Andrew Morris

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Professor of Computational Physics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3428
Email
a.j.morris.1@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Metallurgy and Materials
ID27
Edgbaston
Birmingham

Andrew Morris is a Professor of Computational Physics. His research group uses and develops quantum mechanical techniques for predicting the structure and properties of new materials using a computer. 

He is lead developer of the  computer programme - developed for predicting EELS and XANES spectra of materials from first principles calculations. Please visit the website to find out more about his research.

Qualifications

PhD in Physics, University of Cambridge, UK, 2009
MPhys in Theoretical Physics, University of York, UK, 2006

Postgraduate supervision

Density-functional theory, battery applications, first principles modelling and spectroscopy.

Research

Andrew鈥檚 current interest is in applying the听AIRSS听method to a range of different materials science problems, focussing mainly on lithium-ion batteries. "Trial and error" plays a large part in the discovery of new materials. From the initial idea, the material must be synthesised and categorised before it can be tested which is slow, difficult and expensive. High-throughput computation accelerates this process by suggesting then screening new materials, allowing us to ask "what if?" without the time and expense of manufacturing and categorizing samples. His group models Li-ion batteries at the atomic level and try to uncover new materials to increase their capacity.

He uses global search techniques such as听AIRSS听to predict the ground-state structure of materials. From the ground state his research group uses theoretical spectroscopy techniques to compare their results to experiment. As a junior developer of the electronic structure code听CASTEP and a member of the UK Car-Parinello consortium,听he develops tools for optics, electron-energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and core-loss analysis through the听OptaDOS听code. He uses and modifies CASTEP-NMR to calculate the chemical shielding of battery materials in collaboration with experimentalists.

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Publications

Recent publications

Article

Dur谩n-Egido, V, Darby, JP, Cliffe, MJ, Garitaonandia, JS, Grande-Fern谩ndez, P, Morris, AJ, Carretero-Gonz谩lez, J & Castillo martinez, E 2025, '', Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) .

Ko, SL, Dorrell, JA, Alter, ED, Ta, AC, Morris, AJ & Griffith, KJ 2025, '', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 147, no. 10, pp. 8513鈥�8522.

Pitcairn, J, Ongkiko, MA, Iliceto, A, Speakman, PJ, Calder, S, Cochran, MJ, Paddison, JAM, Liu, C, Argent, SP, Morris, AJ & Cliffe, MJ 2024, '', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 28, pp. 19146-19159.

Bergsma, J, Merkys, A, Andersen, C, Andersson, OB, Beltr谩n, D, Blokhin, E, Boland, TM, Balderas, RC, Choudhary, K, D铆az, AD, Garc铆a, RD, Eckert, H, Eimre, K, Montero, MEF, Krajewski, AM, Mortensen, JJ, Duarte, JMN, Pietryga, J, Qi, J, Carrillo, FDJT, Vaitkus, A, Yu, J, Zettel, A, Castro, PBD, Carlsson, JM, Cerqueira, TFT, Divilov, S, Hajiyani, H, Hanke, F, Jose, K, Oses, C, Riebesell, J, Schmidt, J, Winston, D, Xie, C, Yang, X, Bonella, S, Botti, S, Curtarolo, S, Draxl, C, Fuentes-Cobas, LEE, Hospital, A, Liu, Z-K, Marques, MAL, Marzari, N, Morris, AJ, Ong, SP, Orozco, M, Persson, KA, Thygesen, KS, Wolverton, CM, Scheidgen, M, Toher, C, Conduit, G, Pizzi, G, Gra啪ulis, S, Rignanese, G-M, Armiento, R & Evans, ML 2024, '', Digital Discovery.

Banerjee, H, Aichhorn, M, Grey, CP & Morris, AJ 2024, '', Journal of Physics: Energy, vol. 6, no. 4, 045003.

Banerjee, H, Grey, CP & Morris, AJ 2024, '', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 36, no. 13, pp. 6575-6587.

Xu, Y, Marrett, JM, Titi, HM, Darby, JP, Morris, A, Friscic, T & Arhangelskis, M 2023, '', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 145, no. 6, pp. 3515-3525.

Harper, AF, Monserrat, B & Morris, AJ 2023, '', AIP Advances, vol. 13, no. 5, 055015.

Julien, PA, Arhangelskis, M, Germann, LS, Etter, M, Dinnebier, RE, Morris, AJ & Fri拧膷i膰, T 2023, '', Chemical Science, vol. 14, pp. 12121-12132.

Banerjee, H, Grey, CP & Morris, AJ 2023, '', Physical Review B, vol. 108, no. 16, 165124.

Comment/debate

Banerjee, H & Morris, AJ 2024, '', Journal of Materials Research, pp. 1-2.

Letter

Shah, NA, P谩ez Fajardo, GJ, Banerjee, H, Pandey, GC, Menon, AS, Ans, M, Majherova, V, Bree, G, Bolloju, S, Grinter, DC, Ferrer, P, Thakur, PK, Lee, TL, Loveridge, MJ, Morris, AJ, Grey, CP & Piper, LFJ 2025, '', ACS Energy Letters, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1313-1320.

Other contribution

Ghumra, A (ed.), Acil, N, Barker, J, Baziotis, C, Beltran Hernandez, A, Dai, D, Deakin, J, Dettmer, S, Fentham, D, Fontrodona-Bach, A, Hart-Villamil, R, Jenkins, B, Jia, X, Jones, AM, Morris, A, Murakami, A, Seymour, R, Da Silva Xavier, G, Smith, C, Tashev, S, Turner, J, Uche, EO, Xia, X & Zhong, J 2023, . University 麻豆精选.

Preprint

Darby, JP, Harper, AF, Nelson, JR & Morris, AJ 2024 '' arXiv.

Review article

Banerjee, H & Morris, AJ 2025, '', Journal of Materials Research, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 2-35.