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Apr 15, 2026 Awarded the ETH Zürich Focus Grant (CHF 10,106) — a two-month fellowship from the ETH Grants Office supporting preparation of an ERC Starting Grant application.
Aug 01, 2025 Joined ETH Zürich as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences. Working on quantum computing for biology, metalloenzyme engineering, and the catalytic mechanism of nitrogenase!
Apr 15, 2025 PyCPET — our open-source Python toolbox for computing heterogeneous 3D protein electric fields — has been published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC 2025).
Jan 15, 2025 Our comprehensive review on electric fields in enzyme catalysis has been published in Chemical Reviews (2025). This review covers the theory, computational methods, and experimental measurements of electric fields in enzymatic systems.
Oct 01, 2024 New paper in JACS: Our machine learning framework interprets 3D electric fields across heme-iron oxidoreductases to predict enzymatic function. Published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 28375–28383.
Jun 15, 2024 Our paper on electric field evolution through directed evolution of protoglobin for carbene transfer has been published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 16670–16680.
Jul 01, 2023 Our review on the role of second coordination sphere residues in metalloenzyme catalysis is published in Chemical Science 2023, 14, 8027–8046.
Jan 15, 2023 Joined the Alexandrova Group at UCLA as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Excited to investigate enzyme catalysis through electric fields and machine learning!