ChemAI poster prize for Eline


Eline Kempkes, PhD in the group of Alberto Pérez de Alba Ortíz, won the 3rd-place poster prize during the ChemAI conference. She presented her work on: “Predicting ion-responsive mechanical properties of biopolymers: A Bayesian Approach”. Congrats, Eline!

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Massimiliano and Alexander present at HRSMC Lustrum symposium


Massimiliano Paesani, PhD in the group of Ioana Ilie, and Alexander Korotkevich, Postdoc in the group of Alberto Pérez de Alba Ortíz, gave presentations at the Lustrum Symposium of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC). Massimiliano presented his work on “MetaParticles: Computationally Engineered Nanomaterials with Tunable and Responsive Properties” Alexander presented his work […]

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Alberto appointed as member of the Amsterdam Young Academy


On 5 November Alberto Pérez de Alba Ortíz was one of the young academics that have been appointed as members of the Amsterdam Young Academy (AYA): the network of young academics at VU Amsterdam, UvA and Amsterdam UMC. AYA is a network of promising, young Amsterdam academics whose research extends beyond their own discipline. It was founded […]

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Unravelling molecular self-organisation using a machine learning approach


Our collaborative paper with the Frankfurt groups lead by Robert Covino and Gerhard Hummer just appeared in Nature Computational Science. Arjun and Peter Bolhuis contributed with their modelling expertise in methane-hydrate nucleation and crystallisation. They were able to show that, for the first time, an algorithm can automatically learn the essence about a switch from […]

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