Cecilia Clementi

About

Cecilia Clementi is Einstein Professor of Physics at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Germany. She joined the faculty of FU in June 2020 after 19 years as a Professor of Chemistry at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Cecilia obtained her Ph.D. in Physics at SISSA and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, where she was part of the La Jolla Interfaces in Science program. Her research focuses on the development and application of methods for the modeling of complex biophysical processes, by means of molecular dynamics, statistical mechanics, coarse-grained models, experimental data, and machine learning.

Cecilia’s research has been recognized by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), and the Robert A. Welch Foundation Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research (2009).  Since 2016 she is also a co-Director of the National Science Foundation Molecular Sciences Software Institute.