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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Emil Alexov Emil Alexov
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5346-0156
Wallace R. Roy Distinguished Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Department of Material Sciences
Department of Healthcare Genetics
Clemson University, USA
Email: ealexov@clemson.edu
Website: http://compbio.clemson.edu/
Research areas: computational biophysics, bioinformatics, personalized medicine, precision diagnostics

Advisory Editors

Arieh Warshel Arieh Warshel
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7971-5401
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2013
Elected Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Southern California, USA
Email: warshel@usc.edu
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arieh_Warshel, https://laetro.usc.edu/
Research areas: computational enzymology, force field development, advanced protein electrostatics, ion channels & proton transport, G-proteins, entropy, DNA and RNA replication and fidelity, vision and photobiology, drug resistance & drug design
J. Andrew McCammon J. Andrew McCammon
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-1456
Elected Member, US National Academy of Sciences
Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Biophysical Society
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division
Joseph E. Mayer Chair Professor of Theoretical Chemistry Emeritus
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology Emeritus, School of Medicine
University of California, San Diego, USA
Email: jmccammon@ucsd.edu
Website: https://mccammon.ucsd.edu/
Research areas: molecular and Brownian dynamics simulations, molecular recognition, computer-aided drug design
Barry Honig Barry Honig
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2480-6696
Elected Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science
Fellow, International Society of Computational Biology
Fellow, Biophysical Society
Professor
Department of Systems Biology
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Department of Medicine
Zuckerman Institute
Columbia University, USA
Email: bh6@cumc.columbia.edu
Website: http://honig.c2b2.columbia.edu/
Research areas: electrostatics in biomacromolecules, protein-DNA interactions, cell-cell adhesion, structural bioinformatics, cadherins
Michael K. Gilson Michael K. Gilson
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3375-1738
Distinguished Professor and Chair in Computer-Aided Drug Design
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Co-Director, UCSD Center for Drug Discovery Innovation
UC San Diego, USA
Email: mgilson@health.ucsd.edu
Website: https://gilson.cloud.ucsd.edu/
Research areas: computer-aided drug design, statistical thermodynamics of protein-small molecule binding, force fields, database of measured binding affinities (BindingDB), molecular motors and non-equilibrium systems, blinded prediction
John Z.H. Zhang John Z.H. Zhang (founding Editor-in-Chief)
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4612-1863
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Director, NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry
New York University, USA
Email: john.zhang@nyu.edu
Website: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/john-zhang.html
Research areas: computational chemistry, computational protein dynamics
Guowei Wei Guowei Wei (Editor-in-Chief from 2012–2016)
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8132-5998
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Department of Engineering
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michigan State University, USA
Email: weig@msu.edu
Website: https://users.math.msu.edu/users/weig/
Research areas: mathematical biophysics, machine learning, data science, drug discovery

Associate Editors


Americas
Ana Damjanovic Ana Damjanovic
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-2705
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Biophysics
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Email: adamjan1@jhu.edu
Website: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/damjanovic-lab/
Research areas: ion channels, protein and membrane electrostatics
Lin Li Lin Li
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6447-2398
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC)
University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Email: lli5@utep.edu
Website: http://compbio.utep.edu/
Research areas: computational biophysics, bioinformatics, molecular motors
Yirong Mo Yirong Mo
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2994-7754
Professor & Department Chair (Nanoscience)
Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Email: y_mo3@uncg.edu
Website: https://jsnn.ncat.uncg.edu/people/yirong-mo/
Research areas: bonding, computational studies of inorganic/nano/biological systems
Alexey Onufriev Alexey Onufriev
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4930-6612
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Department of Physics
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
Virginia Tech, USA
Email: alexey@cs.vt.edu
Website: http://people.cs.vt.edu/onufriev/
Research areas: computational biophysics, biomolecular electrostatics, structure-function connection in biomolecular systems (water, DNA, 3D genome organization)
Wei Yang Wei Yang
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4520-3253
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University, USA
Email: yang@sb.fsu.edu
Website: http://biophysics.fsu.edu/yang/
Research areas: first principles-based protein and ligand design, long-timescale biochemical & biophysical simulations
Shan Zhao Shan Zhao
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3023-2107
Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Alabama, USA
Email: szhao@ua.edu
Website: https://math.ua.edu/people/shan-zhao/
Research areas: mathematical methods for molecular biology, implicit solvent models, biomolecular solvation analysis, ensemble averaged electrostatics, regularization for singular charges, PDE modeling of molecular surfaces, variational multiscale models, fast molecular surface triangulation
Europe
Rita Casadio Rita Casadio
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7462-7039
Elected Fellow, International Society of Computational Biology
Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biocomputing
University of Bologna, Italy
Email: rita.casadio@unibo.it
Website: http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/casadio/
Research areas: machine learning, computer modelling of protein folding, protein structure and function prediction, membrane protein topology, protein-protein and protein-DNA interaction, protein reaction mechanisms, de novo design of peptides/molecules, genome annotation, protein interaction networks, SNPs search and annotation and their effect on protein stability
Mire Zloh FRSC Mire Zloh FRSC
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4848-2737
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
Emeritus Professor, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Honorary Professor, University College London, UK
Vice Dean for International Cooperation and Research, Faculty of Pharmacy in Novi Sad, Serbia
Email: m.zloh@herts.ac.uk; m.zloh@ucl.ac.uk
Website: https://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/en/persons/mire-zloh
Research areas: drug design and discovery, computational medicinal chemistry, chemometrics, dendrimers, efflux pumps, PEGylated proteins
Marc Van der Kamp Marc Van der Kamp
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8060-3359
Associate Professor
School of Biochemistry
University of Bristol, UK
Email: m.marc.vanderkamp@bristol.ac.uk
Website: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/marc-w-van-der-kamp
Research areas: Multiscale biomolecular simulation of enzyme reactions (applications and methods), biomolecular simulations to investigate the dynamics and interactions of proteins and their complexes
Miguel Machuqueiro Miguel Machuqueiro
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6923-8744
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Email: machuque@ciencias.ulisboa.pt
Website: http://mms.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/
Research areas: computational biophysics, constant-pH MD methods
António Varandas António Varandas
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1501-3317
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Email: varandas@uc.pt
Website: https://www.uc.pt/uid/tcc/people/ajcvarandas
Research areas: computational chemistry, potential energy surfaces
Asia
Mohammednoor Altarawneh Mohammednoor Altarawneh
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2832-3886
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Email: mn.altarawneh@uaeu.ac.ae
Website: https://eng.uaeu.ac.ae/en/departments/chem-pet/profile.shtml?email=mn.altarawneh@uaeu.ac.ae
Research areas: computational catalysis, halogenated pollutants, low-temperature oxidation reactions
Zexing Cao Zexing Cao
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0803-7732
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Xiamen University, China
Email: zxcao@xmu.edu.cn
Website: http://ctc.xmu.edu.cn/zxcao/
Research areas: computational chemistry, excited states and photochemistry, enzymatic catalysis, computational materials science
Frank Eisenhaber Frank Eisenhaber
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9599-5420
Executive Director, Senior Principal Investigator
Bioinformatics Institute
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Email: frank@eisenhaber.org
Website: https://www.a-star.edu.sg/bii/people/principal-investigators
Research areas: bioinformatics, gene/protein function prediction, discovery of new biomolecular mechanisms
Michitoshi Hayashi Michitoshi Hayashi
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-8708
Director
Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS)
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Email: atmyh@ntu.edu.tw
Website: http://www.ntu-ccms.ntu.edu.tw/en/members/michitoshi-hayashi-9
Research areas: computational studies of periodic materials (molecular crystals, polymers, perovskites) and low dimensional systems
Rizwan Hasan Khan Rizwan Hasan Khan
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9965-8982
Professor
Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit
Aligarh Muslim University, India
Email: rhkhan.cb@amu.ac.in
Website: https://www.amu.ac.in/faculty/interdisciplinary-biotechnology-unit/rizwan-hasan-khan
Research areas: protein structure and function, protein misfolding / aggregation, amyloid induction and inhibition, neuroscience (Alzheimer's and Parkinson's), purification/refolding of recombinant proteins, albumin-drug interaction
Minghui Li Minghui Li
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7657-6589
Professor
School of Biology & Basic Medical Sciences
Soochow University, China
Email: minghui.li@suda.edu.cn
Website: https://lilab.jysw.suda.edu.cn/
Research areas: computational biophysics, mutations, diseases
Renjith Thomas FRSC Renjith Thomas FRSC
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0011-633X
Professor and Head
Department of Chemistry, St Berchmans College
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Email: renjith@sbcollege.ac.in
Website: https://sbcollege.ac.in/faculty/1259/
Research areas: theoretical solvation science, theoretical organic chemistry, drug design and discovery, excited state phenomena, machine learning in theoretical and medicinal chemistry

Social Media Editor

Marta S. P. Batista Marta S. P. Batista
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7727-9498
Ph.D. Candidate
Faculty of Sciences
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Email: martaspbat@ciencias.ulisboa.pt
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martaspbat/
Research areas: Molecular Dynamics, Computational Biophysics