Dr Paul Sherwood is an STFC Fellow and Group Leader of the Computational Chemistry Group at STFC. The group develops a range of software tools including widely used quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics packages, with an emphasis on large-scale parallel computing.

His main research interest is the development of accurate modelling schemes for complex systems, such as combined quantum/classical methods for the modelling of catalytic reactions including enzymes. He is the lead author of the ChemShell software and is a developer of the quantum mechanical methods in the CHARMM simulation package . With the advent of tera-scale computing, accurate ab-initio methods can now be applied to large-scale problems and Sherwood has established collaborations in areas such as crystal engineering , drug design and nanoscience.

He has been a guest lecturer in MSc courses at Cardiff and Edinburgh and has published over 70 papers.