Catlow 教授是英国皇家学会会员（Fellow of the Royal Society），UCL大学(University College London)化学系系主任，并在Davy faraday research laboratoy主持工作。长期从事固体材料的计算机模拟研究,利用力场及量子力学技术揭示复杂无机材料的结构、性质及反应特征，涉及的体系主要有多孔分子筛和金属化合物等。至今已出版多部学术著作，并在Nature, JACS, Physical Review B, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 等杂志发表700多篇学术论文。在1992年和1998获英国皇家化学会奖。代表性著作和论文：
1.Modelling of Structure and Reactivity in Zeolites, 1992
2.Computer Modelling in Inorganic Crystallography,1997
3.Computational Materials Science, 2003.

4.De novo design of structure-directing agents for the synthesis of microporous solids, Nature, 1996, 382, 604.

5.Simulation of the embryonic stage of ZnS formation from aqueous solution, JACS, 2005, 127(8), 2580.

6.Simulating dehydration: a novel hybrid molecular dynamics method, Molecular simulation, 2004,30(5), 323.