Niall J. English. Niall J. English (born March 29th, 1979) is an Irish inventor, industrialist, researcher, and chartered chemical engineer. He is the founding director of BioSimulytics and AquaB.

Early life and education 
Niall J. English (born March 29th, 1979) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Michael and Catherine English. He grew up in Dublin and Brussels. He speaks Irish and French. English obtained a First-Class Honors degree in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin in 2000 and won the Ferdinand de Lesseps medal in French as well as the Engineering Graduates’ Association gold medal in his final year in 1999-2000. He completed his Ph.D. in 2003.

Career 
During 2004-2005, English explored electric-field effects thereon, at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, a U.S. DOE research facility in Pittsburgh. Between 2005 and 2007, English worked for Chemical Computing Group in Cambridge, Great Britain. During this time, English developed molecular simulation codes, protocols, and methods for biomolecular simulation.

In January 2007, he was hired as a lecturer at the School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2014. In 2017, he became a professor at the same school.

English’s research specializes in nanoscience, energy, gas hydrates, solar and renewable energies, and simulation of electromagnetic field effects on (nano) materials and biological systems.

In 2019, he is a co-founder and director of BioSimulytics and Aqua-B. Both companies are backed by the EIC-Accelerator program. 

In 2023, he took legal action against the University College Dublin from granting commercialization license to his rival companies.  The case was settled out of court.

Publications 

 (2012b). Photo-induced charge separation across the graphene–tio2 interface is faster than energy losses: A time-domain ab initio analysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134/34: 14238–48. DOI: 10.1021/ja3063953
 (2015). English, N. J., & Waldron, C. J. Perspectives on External Electric Fields in molecular simulation: Progress, prospects and challenges. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The Royal Society of Chemistry.
 (2003) English, N. J., & MacElroy, J. M. D. Molecular dynamics simulations of microwave heating of water. AIP Publishing. AIP Publishing. 
 (2007) Rosenbaum, E. J., English, N. J., Johnson, J. K., Shaw, D. W., & Warzinski, R. P. (2007). Thermal conductivity of methane hydrate from experiment and molecular simulation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111/46: 13194–205. DOI: 10.1021/jp074419o
 (2005) English, N. J., Johnson, J. K., & Taylor, C. E. Molecular-dynamics simulations of Methane Hydrate Dissociation. AIP Publishing. AIP Publishing. 
 (2014) English, N. J., & MacElroy, J. M. D. Perspectives on molecular simulation of clathrate hydrates: Progress, prospects and challenges. Chemical Engineering Science. Pergamon.
 (2010) Long, R., & English, N. J. Synergistic effects on band gap-narrowing in Titania by codoping from first-principles calculations. Chemistry of Materials, 22/5: 1616–23. DOI: 10.1021/cm903688z
 (2004) English , N. J., & MacElroy, J. M. D. Theoretical studies of the kinetics of methane hydrate crystallization in external electromagnetic fields. The Journal of chemical physics. U.S. National Library of Medicine. 
 (2003a) English, N. J., & MacElroy, J. M. D. (2003a). Hydrogen bonding and molecular mobility in liquid water in external electromagnetic fields. AIP Publishing.
 (2009) Long, R., & English, N. J.First-principles calculation of nitrogen-tungsten codoping effects on the band structure of anatase-titania. AIP Publishing.

References 

Chemical engineers

1979 births
Living people

Irish inventors
Members of the Royal Irish Academy