Cecilia Clementi

Cecilia Clementi is an Italian-American scientist who specialises in the simulation of biomolecules. She is a Professor of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics at the Free University of Berlin. She was previously a Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Rice University and co-director of the National Science Foundation Molecular Sciences Software Institute. From 2017 to 2019, she held an Einstein Foundation fellowship. In 2020 she was appointed Einstein Professor of Physics at Freie Universität Berlin.

She is also a scuba divemaster and underwater photographer. Some of her photographs are shown in her Instagram page

Email: cecilia.clementi@fu-berlin.de

Dr. Alessandro Caruso

Alessandro Caruso

Postdoc

About: Alessandro's research focuses on designing and developing new message-passing architectures to incorporate long-range interactions in machine-learned potentials of large biomolecular systems.

Email: alessandro.caruso@fu-berlin.de

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    Dr. Raquel López-Ríos de Castro

    Raquel López-Ríos de Castro

    Postdoc

    About: Raquel is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on developing computational and machine learning methods to enhance protein structure modeling and accelerate the discovery of new therapeutics.

    Email: raquel.lopez-rios.de.castro@fu-berlin.de

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      Dr. Lorenzo Giambagli

      Lorenzo Giambagli

      Postdoc

      About: Lorenzo is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. His research focuses on the interpretability of Graph Neural Networks used for Machine Learning Potentials, through the lens of graph theory and statistical mechanics.

      Email: lorenzo.giambagli@fu-berlin.de

      More: https://lorenzogiambagli.com/

        Dr. Luca Sagresti

        Dr. Luca Sagresti

        Postdoc

        About: Luca's research focuses on pushing the boundaries of biomolecular simulations by adapting machine-learned coarse-grained force fields across broader chemical spaces and on multiscale modeling by bridging quantum, atomistic and CG simulations.

        Email: l.sagresti@fu-berlin.de

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          Dr. Zakariya El-Machachi

          Dr. Zakariya El-Machachi

          Postdoc

          About: Zak is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin within the research project "Einstein Visiting Fellow Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman". His work focuses on device scale modelling for solid polymer electrolytes using machine-learning interatomic potentials and generative flow-based models.

          Email: zakariya.el.machachi@fu-berlin.de

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            Dr. Jorge Rosa-Raíces

            Jorge Rosa-Raíces

            Postdoc

            About: Jorge (he/him) is a postdoctoral scholar supported by the Einstein Stiftung Berlin to develop efficient methods for modeling quantum effects during charge transport in liquid electrolytes. He is also interested in building AI-boosted tools to enable kinetically-consistent coarse-graining of molecular systems and to extract free-energy landscapes from nonequilibrium molecular data.

            Email: j.rosa-raices@fu-berlin.de

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              Dr. Gianmarco Lazzeri

              Dr. Gianmarco Lazzeri

              Postdoc

              About: Gianmarco joined the lab with the goal of developing a transferable Machine Learning Force Field for membrane proteins. He studied in Pisa (Bachelor’s in Physics) and Trento (Master’s in Quantitative and Computational Biology), and achieved his PhD at the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies and Goethe University Frankfurt in the Lab of Prof. Roberto Covino, where he spearheaded the development of the AI-driven path sampling method AIMMD.

              Email: g.lazzeri@fu-berlin.de

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                Finn Tillinger

                Finn Tillinger

                PhD Candidate

                About: Finn's research focuses on the development of new machine learning models for molecular dynamics simulations of large biomolecules. He is specifically interested in incorporating long-range interactions in inherently local message passing neural networks.

                Email: finn.tillinger@fu-berlin.de

                  Klara Bonneau

                  Klara Bonneau

                  PhD Candidate

                  About: Klara is a PhD Candidate of the FAIME project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Her research is focussed on building machine learned coarse grained force fields for proteins and interpreting them using explainable AI tools.

                  Email: klara.bonneau@fu-berlin.de

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                    Andrea Gulyas

                    Andrea Gulyas

                    PhD Candidate

                    About: Andrea is an IMPRS-BAC PhD candidate. Her research focuses on developing machine-learned coarse-grained models to simulate protein folding, disorder, and aggregation.

                    Email: aguljas@zedat.fu-berlin.de

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                      Edoardo Rolando

                      Edoardo Rolando

                      PhD Candidate

                      About: Edoardo's research focuses on the development and improvement of machine learning-based force fields for biomolecular systems, with an emphasis on integrating experimental data to increase accuracy and transferability.

                      Email: edoardo.rolando@fu-berlin.de

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                        Ana Cristina Molina Taborda

                        Ana Cristina Molina Taborda

                        PhD Candidate

                        About: Ana is a PhD candidate at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research is focused in developing machine-learned coarse-graining models for large proteins.

                        Email: ana.molina.taborda@fu-berlin.de

                          Jacopo Venturin

                          Jacopo Venturin

                          PhD Candidate

                          About: Jacopo is an IMPRS-BAC PhD candidate. He joined the group after his bachelor in physics at university of Florence through a fast track program of the Max Planck Institute. He’s work focuses on including long-range interactions and thermal dependency into coarse grained models for proteins.

                          Email: jacopo@physik.fu-berlin.de

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                            Ella Viale-Sole

                            Ella Viale-Sole

                            PhD Candidate

                            About: Ella is a Freie Universität Berlin PhD candidate. She works on the development and application of machine learning methodologies for complex molecular systems.

                            Email: ellav73@zedat.fu-berlin.de

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