Jan. 27, 2005 — Accelrys Inc. (Nasdaq: ACCL), a provider of modeling and simulation software for nanotechnology, announced the formation of its Nanotechnology Consortium Scientific Advisory Board.

The goal of the consortium is to accelerate the development of software tools that enable the design of nanomaterials and nanodevices, as well as close the gap between scientists and engineers. The board is comprised of people in the areas of nanotechnology, chemistry, computational physics and engineering. The company has appointed:

• Richard Catlow, professor of natural philosophy and director of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, Royal Institution of Great Britain and head of chemistry, University College London.
• Tim Clark, technical director of the Computer-Chemie-Centrum in Erlangen, Germany.
• Alessandro De Vita, assistant professor in materials engineering at University of Trieste and reader in physics, King’s College London.
• Julian Gale, professor of computational chemistry in the Nanochemistry Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia.
• Sharon Glotzer, associate professor of chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, macromolecular science and engineering, and physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, professor of materials design by computer simulation, and director of the Center for Computational Materials Science at the Institute for Materials Research in Tohoku University, Japan.
• Mike Payne, chair of computational physics at the University of Cambridge.
• Ruben Perez, associate professor at Universidad Autonoma, Madrid.
• Alan Windle, professor of materials science, University of Cambridge.