Speaker Biography

Professor Arieh Warshel

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2013
Elected Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Distinguished Professor at Large, School of Medicine, CUHK-Shenzhen
Director of Warshel Institute for Computational Biology, CUHK-Shenzhen

Professor Arieh Warshel has pioneered key approaches for simulating the functions of biological molecules, including introducing molecular dynamics in biology; developing the quantum-mechanical/molecular-mechanical (QM/MM) approach; introducing simulations of enzymatic reactions; pioneering microscopic simulations of electron transfer and proton transfer in solutions and in proteins; pioneering microscopic modeling of electrostatic effects in macromolecules; and introducing simulations of protein folding. In addition, Professor Warshel and his collaborators recently elucidated the structure-based origin of the vectorial action of molecular machines. The multi-scale molecular simulation method developed by Professor Warshel has been successfully applied to biomolecular systems and protein reaction mechanisms, and thus won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

Since 2017, Professor Warshel was invited by Professor Xu YangShen, the President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, as the Director of Warshel Institute for Computational Biology.

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