Cameron’s undergraduate degree was at the University of Bath in where he studied for an MSci in Natural sciences, graduating in 2020 with first-class honours. During his undergraduate degree, Cameron completed a yearlong industry project at Merck Chemicals Ltd, within the scouting and feasibility department. This research focused on optical packaging, organic electronics and organic thin film transistors. Cameron’s final year research project was supervised by Prof Chick Wilson and investigated the control of disorder and polymorphism within crystalline compounds.
On completion of his MSci, Cameron completed a 3-month summer placement at the Cambridge crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), assisting in curation, improvements, and additions to the Cambridge Structural Database.
In 2020, Cameron began a CCDC funded PhD at the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Prof Simon Parsons. His thesis titled: ‘It’s not all about U: the role of volume and entropy in weakly bound crystal structures’ challenges the approximation that molecular packing should be described solely in terms of the internal energy conferred by strong structure directing interactions. The thesis had a particular focus on weak interactions involving hydrogen atoms and molecular compounds at high pressure. During his PhD, Cameron received the Joseph Black, IUCrJ and RSC prizes for contributions to both domestic and international conferences.
In 2024 Cameron began a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship within the Senn group. Here Cameron is employing his strong background in high-pressure crystallography for investigation into pressure transmitting media. The project, run jointly with the Sosso group, utilises a joint experimental and computational approach to achieve rational design of novel pressure transmitting media.