Benjamin Xu Shi, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, ICC, Flatiron InstituteBenjamin Xu Shi’s website

Benjamin Shi joined the Initiative for Computational Catalysis (ICC) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in March 2025. He is interested in applying and developing accurate electronic structure methods, aided by embedding and machine-learning techniques, to problems in heterogeneous catalysis. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 2024 and an MEng in Materials Science at the University of Oxford in 2020.

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