Spring 2023 Physics Careers Seminar Series Continues on April 7 with Talk by Alumna Dr. Rezvan Shahoei from Schrodinger, Inc.

The Spring 2023 Physics Careers Seminar series continues on Friday, April 7 with a talk by alumna Dr. Rezvan Shahoei from Schrödinger, Inc., who will talk about "Applications Science at Schrödinger, Inc." at 12:00 noon in 276 Loomis. Details of Dr. Shahoei's seminar are given below.

Time: 12:00 noon on Friday, April 7, 2023

Location: 276 Loomis. A Zoom link will also be forwarded to the Illinois Physics Grad Student email list. For a copy of the link, please contact Lance Cooper (slcooper@illinois.edu).

Title: Applications Science at Schrödinger, Inc.

Speaker: Dr. Rezvan Shahoei, Senior Scientist, Schrödinger, Inc.

Abstract: Schrödinger’s physics-based computational platform accelerates the discovery of high-quality novel molecules for drug discovery and materials design. The platform is used by the company’s internal Therapeutics Group as well as by thousands of biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories around the world. As an Applications Scientist on the Life Sciences team, I am a member of the software support organization where I interact with our customers in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. In this talk, I will first provide a brief overview of Schrödinger and its unique business model. I will then discuss my day-to-day experience as an Applications Scientist at the company.

Bio: Rezvan Shahoei is an Applications Scientist at Schrödinger. Before joining Schrödinger in 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Yu-ming M. Huang's group at Wayne State University. Her postdoctoral research involved applying molecular dynamics-based enhanced sampling methods to investigate protein-ligand and protein-membrane binding and unbinding processes. She received her Ph.D. in physics in 2020 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Dr. Klaus Schulten and Dr. Emad Tajkhorshid. During her Ph.D., she focused on computational modeling and simulation of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels and their interaction with small molecules.

You can see the rest of the Spring 2023 Physics Careers Seminar series here: https://physics.illinois.edu/calendar/careers-seminar