Accelerating materials discovery, intelligently

Jacob Terence (Terry) Blaskovits is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta and an Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) fellow.

He works at the interface of machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and computational chemistry for the discovery of molecules and materials for energy, optical and catalysis applications. In particular, he is focused on the data-driven design of carbon-based excitonic materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic photovoltaics (OPV).

Prior to joining the UofA, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany) with Dr. Denis Andrienko. He obtained his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPF/ETH Lausanne, Switzerland), in the group of Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf. He received his MSc at Université Laval (Québec City, Canada) as a Schmeelk Canada fellow, working with Profs. Mario Leclerc and Paul Johnson. In 2016, he was awarded an NSERC foreign study fellowship to conduct research in the group of Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA). He received a BSc from Université Laval in 2016 as an inaugural Schulich Leader scholar.