Presenter

Andreas is a statistical mechanician and quantum theoretician with a life-long passion for code development who happens to like organic systems. After his Diplom-Physics degree from Humboldt-University Berlin (building a flow cytometer from the optical pickup unit of a DVD burner) he obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Washington, Seattle (discovering design rules for organic non-linear optical chromophores and developing an ellipsoidal coarse-grained force field), He did his post-doc at ORNL speeding up Quantum Monte-Carlo on Summit and is currently at Scripps Research developing the new generation of AutoDock.