UK and Europe are different. Italy has very active electronic structure groups and UK has people like the group at Cambridge and Rex Godby or Matthias Scheffler at FHI. The funding structure here in the US simply does not reward higher levels of theory, and high throughput analysis is being driven here in the US by Scheffler&#x27;s acolytes (and Gerbrand Ceder, etc). No less than Peter Littlewood told people here at a DFT conference a few years back bitching about funding &quot;Go to chemistry and materials science departments instead, they will love you&quot;