Jeff Wereszczynski is an assistant professor of physics and is a member of the Center for Computational Science as well as the Center for Molecular Study of Condensed Soft Matter (uCoSM) and the Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT). His research interests focus on understanding the mechanisms of biomolecular complexes formed of protein, DNA, and lipid molecules to probe the physical foundations for how life functions. This work relies significantly on molecular dynamics simulations in which systems of interested are modeled with atomic-scale resolution and simulated with classical Newtonian mechanics. Research in his group is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Wereszczynski received his doctorate in biophysics from the University of Michigan in 2008. Following this, he did postdoctoral work at the University of California San Diego under the guidance of Professor J. Andrew McCammon, one of the pioneers in the field of computational chemistry. He has been on the faculty of Illinois Tech since 2013.
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