Niki wins Best Oral Presentation at ACS Fall meeting in Chicago


Niki’s talk, “Generative peptide design targeting Parkinson’s disease,” covered how generative models can help us design new peptides against one of the most challenging neurodegenerative diseases. You can read more about Niki’s work together with Ioana and Lars van der Heide (SILS) here. Congratulations, Niki!

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Ioana awarded first ever NextGenChem award


Ioana is the first recipient of the NextGenChem award of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), recognizing her commitment to research, teaching and community building. The award will be presented to during the Young PI meeting at CHAINS in December. Read more here. Congratulations, Ioana! Photo credit: APnet

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Stefano Polla appointed assistant professor in quantum computing for chemistry


Stefano Polla has been appointed Assistant Professor in Quantum Computing and Simulation for Quantum Chemistry and Materials. He will develop quantum computing algorithms for applications in chemistry, working on a joint position between the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, the Institute for Informatics, and QuSoft. Read more about Stefano here. Welcome, Stefano! Photo […]

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Jacobus and Maxim present at NWO Physics


Maxim Brodmerkel and Jacobus Dijkman gave talks during one of NWO Physics parallel sessions on Statistical Physics & Soft condensed matter, Maxim presented about AI4Food: Machine Learning-driven coarse-grain simulations of complex food protein mixtures, while Jacobus shared his work on Learning Neural Free-Energy Functionals with Pair-Correlation Matching. Congratulations to both!

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