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John Klepeis
John graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May of 1994 with a BS in Chemical Engineering and a minor in German Languages & Literature. He remained at MIT until August of 1995, earning his MSCEP degree from MIT's Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice. While at the Practice School, he worked in several academic and industrial settings including the Natick Army Research Labs in Natick, Massachusetts, Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, and Total Petroleum Refinery in Alma, Michigan. After receiving his MSCEP from MIT, John came to Princeton University, where, during the course of his PhD research, he developed new modeling and algorithmic techniques to tackle the protein folding problem, a hallmark scientific problem in the area of computational chemistry and molecular biology. His work resulted in the development of a comprehensive computational method, ASTRO-FOLD, for treating the protein folding problem. In June 2002, John earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. He is currently exploring the further applications of the ASTRO-FOLD method as a postdocoral member of Professor Floudas' group, in addition to researching new ideas for forcefield model development and, more recently, the problem of denovo peptide and protein design. |
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