Alan Grossfield
Associate Professor Of Biochemistry
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Grossfield is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Rochester with 18 years of experience using molecular simulation and supercomputing to probe lipid–protein interactions and membrane protein behavior. His lab focuses on GPCRs and synthetic antimicrobial lipopeptides, blending biophysics, computational chemistry, and high-performance computing to reveal molecular-level mechanisms. Trained with a PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins and a BA in Physics from Cornell, he has bridged academic and industrial research, including a staff scientist role at IBM Research studying rhodopsin. Known for applying rigorous simulation methods to practical biological problems, he often brings thermodynamic insights from ion solvation studies into membrane and drug–target contexts.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Lakeland High SchoolBA, Physics (concentration in Biology), BA, Physics (concentration in Biology) at Cornell UniversityPhD, Biophysics, PhD, Biophysics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Github Skills (57)
atom-editor10
computational-chemistry10
simulation9
github-integration9
conda9
monte-carlo8
latex8
javafx8
vmd8
bibtex8
sampling8
academia8
molecular-simulation7
journal7
conda-forge7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/loos-feedstock
Nov 2022 - Aug 2025
A conda-smithy repository for loos.
Contributions:5 reviews, 16 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 9 months
conda
GrossfieldLab/loos
May 2008 - Jan 2023
LOOS: a lightweight object-oriented structure analysis library
Contributions:8 releases, 19 reviews, 1059 commits in 14 years 10 months
object-orientedcomputational-chemistrymolecular-dynamicsstructure-analysis
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