Regular biography
Dr Claire Hobday is a Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Edinburgh, Department of Chemistry. Her research focuses on structure-property relationships, materials chemistry, high-pressure crystallography, and computational chemistry. The Hobday group investigates new greener materials for energy and heat applications using data-driven approaches and a range of physical and computational techniques. Her work includes studies on crystalline coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks, and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks. She has published extensively in journals such as Dalton Transactions, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and Nature Communications.
Scholar-generated biography
Claire Hobday is a Chancellor's Fellow whose research focuses on Materials Modelling, crystallography, and Non-ambient structures. Her work explores the behavior of porous materials under extreme conditions, utilizing high-pressure crystallography and computational modelling to understand adsorption processes and structural transformations. She investigates metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), examining how chemical modifications and defects influence mechanical properties, flexibility, and phase behavior. Her research also addresses the role of crystal size, morphology, and linker flexibility in determining material performance. By combining experimental and computational approaches, Hobday contributes to the development of advanced materials with tunable properties for applications in gas storage, catalysis, and sensing.