Chris Taylor completed an MSci in Chemistry at the University of Bristol in 2010, and stayed on to achieve a Ph.D in Theoretical Chemistry in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Fred Manby.  He subsequently took up a series of postdoctoral research roles with Prof. Graeme Day at the University of Southampton, undertaking over a decade of research in the field of organic molecular crystal structure prediction. 

Since 2025, he holds the position of Research Software Engineer in the Department of Statistics, working with Prof. Charlotte Deane and the Oxford Protein Informatics Group to develop, deploy, and maintain software tools to assist the discovery, simulation, and understanding of antibodies and small molecules for therapeutics.

Beyond his software engineering activities within OPIG, his research interests lie in computational chemistry method development and application, simulation of intermolecular interactions, and in silico prediction and discovery of novel molecules and materials.