David J. Wales
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David Wales at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2016
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| Born | David John Wales September 21, 1963 |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD, ScD) |
| Thesis | Some theoretical aspects of cluster chemistry (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Anthony J. Stone |
| Other academic advisors | R. Stephen Berry |
| Known for | Stone–Wales defect |
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David John Wales (born 1963)FRSFRSC is a Professor of Chemical Physics, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
Wales was educated at Newport Free Grammar School followed by the University of Cambridge where he was awarded an open scholarship to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985. He went on to complete a PhD on cluster chemistry, awarded in 1988 for research supervised by Anthony J. Stone. In 2004 he was awarded a Doctor of Science (ScD) degree from Cambridge.
During 1989, Wales as an English-Speaking Union Lindemann Trust Fellow at the University of Chicago, doing postdoctoral research supervised by R. Stephen Berry. He returned to a research fellowship at Downing College, Cambridge in 1990, was a Lloyd's of London Tercentenary Fellow in 1991, and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) from 1991 to 1998. He was appointed a Lecturer in Cambridge in 1998.
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