The group

Team Lead

Antonia Mey

Senior Lecturer, August 2023 -
Chancellor’s Fellow, April 2021 -
Christina Miller Fellow, Jan 2020 - March 2021
email: antonia.mey@ed.ac.uk
A full CV is available here.

  • BSc Physics with Chemistry, Keele University
  • PhD University of Nottingham with Juan Garrahan
  • Postdoc Freie Universität Berlin with Frank Noe
  • Postdoc University of Edinburgh with Julien Michel

Team Members

Ryan Zhu

PhD student, started Sep 2022

  • BSc in Chemistry, University of Edinburgh

Marco Mattia

PhD student, started April 2023, Sofi2 CDT

  • MPhys Physics, University of Edinburgh

Emma Tomlinson

PhD student, started September 2023 joint with Davide Michieletto

  • MPhys Physics, University of Manchester

Alex Wurster Jacome Barros Belo

PhD student, started May 2024, Biomedical AI CDT

  • BSc Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh

Hattie Barber

PhD student, started Sep 2025, Ada Lovelace funded student joint with STFC and Diamond

  • MSc Biochemistry, University of Bristol

Nada Alhumaid

PhD student, started Jan 2026, joint with Chris Coxon

  • BSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, King Saud University, 2017
  • MSc in Drug Design, UCL, 2021

Chengcheng Xu

PhD student, started Sep 2026

  • MSc in Medicinal Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, China Pharmaceutical University, 2025
  • BSc in Pharmacy, Huaqiao University, 2022

Juan Lopez-Rios De Castro

PhD student, started Sep 2026, AI4BI CDT

  • MSci Physics, UCL, 2024

Cecilia Hong

PhD student, started Sep 2022, main supervisor Claire Hobday

  • MChem Chemistry, University of Edinburgh

Saabir Petker

PhD student, started Apr 2023, Sofi2 CDT, main supervisor Claire Hobday

  • MPhys Physics, Durham University

Auro Varat Patnaik

PhD student, started Jan 2024, main supervisor Davide Michieletto

  • MPhys Physics, University of Edinburgh

Satya Srivastava

PhD student, started Sep 2023, main supervisor Rajeev Kumar @ SNU, India

Kinno Lewis Lewis

PhD student, started Sep 2026, main supervisor Dominic Campopiano

Master, Bachelor Student and Visiting Students

Raya Stoyanova

  • MSc by Research in Chemistry, expected summer 2027
  • BSc Medicinal and Biological Chemistry July 2026

Haofeng Gu

  • BSc in Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, expected July 2027

Rocio Bussolini

  • Visiting PhD student from Oct 2026
  • MSc in Biochemistry University of Buenos Aires, 2024

Tugce Gokdemir

  • Visiting PhD student from Nov 2026
  • MSc in Bioengineering Adana Alparslan Turkes Science and Technology University, 2022

This could be you !

Joining the group

Open Positions

All PhD projects with specific funding will be advertised on this page.

Competitive university funding (deadline to contact me: 1 December 2026). There are currently two scholarships you can apply for with Antonia Mey as the PI:

Please check your eligibility carefully. To apply with me, email Antonia Mey with the subject line “Potential candidate for the Brian Phillips/Edinburgh Doctoral Scholarship” and attach your CV and a cover letter by 1 December 2026. I can only support one candidate, so I will run a short pre-interview to choose who to support.

For other PhD studentships in the School of Chemistry, see the School of Chemistry studentships page.

Applications for PhD and Postdoc positions

Are you interested in working on exciting challenges around antimicrobial resistance looking at ways to combine machine learning and molecular simulations?

Please get in touch by email to discuss different opportunities to join the group, or take a look at some of these PhD and Postdoc funding opportunities:

If you are interested in working with us as a PhD student or postdoc, please send me an email. If there is no specific opening advertised take a look at some of the following opportunities for PhD students:

And for Postdocs:

Generally if you are looking for postdoc funding, there is a great resource for fellowships/funding opportunities around the world: postdoc funding schemes

Undergraduate student projects

The group is happy to accommodate students from various disciplines, not just Chemistry. Ideally suited candidates are students in Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Biochemistry or Biotechnology, provided you have keen interest in exploring the interplay between Biology, Chemistry, and computational modelling and machine learning.

Summer student projects

Please send me an email if you are interested in doing a summer research project to discuss possible available options.

Deadlines for summer projects are usually quite early in the year (end of January). Here is a non-exhaustive list of funding sources:

Former members

Postdocs and PhD students

Dominic Phillips

Jasmin Güven

Rohan Gorantla

Katerina Karoni

Matthew Aquilina

Esra Nur Soysal

Rob Arbon

Jenke Scheen

Master students

Ameya Sadhav

Yihan Guo

Ian Yang

Crystal Wong

Nicholas Runcie

Victor Principe

Matthew Bowley

Yifan Wu

Weizhi Bai

Bachelor Students

Junhao Wang

Cameron Marshall

Jonathan Alvis

Ryan Zhu

Visitors

Annika Niemann

Juliane Aldag

Marta Chronowska

Sarah Scripps

Li Horovitz