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Elsa Sánchez García

Professorship:

Chair of Computational Bioengineering, since 1 January 2023

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Department:

Biochemical and Chemical Engineering

Studies and doctorate:

  • 2006: PhD in Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum
  • 1999: Diploma in Chemistry at Havana University
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Stations:

  • 2017-2022: Professor of Computational Biochemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 2010-2017: Group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr

Focus in research:

Development of physics-based tools for Gibbs free energy calculations in explicit solvent, data mining and hybrid approaches (QM/MM and QM/MM/CG) and their applications for solvation chemistry, (bio)catalysis, drug design and pharmaceutical studies