Hello, my name is Sean and I am a first year PhD student. I am from Dublin, if you were to visit Dublin I would suggest enjoying the nightlife on offer around the city centre. I studied theoretical physics in Trinity College Dublin as an undergrad and now I am beginning my PhD in Trinity, researching computational quantum mechanics for materials science. In this course, I’m hoping to gain a strong understanding of the concepts behind DFT and to get some hands on experience performing calculations. Hopefully, all this will lay the groundwork for me to go on and make my own contributions to DFT.