Alex Dickson
Professor at Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Dickson is a professor and computational chemist specializing in biophysics and molecular simulation, with 11 years of experience building enhanced sampling methods and configuration-space network analyses for biomolecular dynamics. Based at Michigan State University after postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan and a PhD from the University of Chicago, he combines deep theoretical expertise with practical algorithm development for complex, nonequilibrium systems. His research has illuminated multiple folding/unfolding mechanisms in tethered RNA and advanced tools to efficiently map the full landscape of molecular configurations. Alex maintains an active lab web presence and multimedia outreach (Vimeo and Twitter) and curates a Google Scholar profile tracking his citations and impact. He holds an interdisciplinary appointment bridging biochemistry, molecular biology, and computational science, reflecting a commitment to translating methodological advances into biological insight. Colleagues value his ability to turn subtle physical intuition about flow and nonequilibrium processes into robust computational workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Hon. B. Sc. Chemical Physics, Hon. B. Sc. Chemical Physics at University of TorontoPh.D. Chemistry, Ph.D. Chemistry at University of Chicago
Github Skills (28)
simulation10
molecular-representation10
jupyter-book10
simulation-framework9
orange9
computational-biology8
python8
reaction-network8
connectivity8
network-visualization8
ord8
gnn7
visualization7
machine-learning7
diffusion-models5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexrd/cv
Jan 2019 - Mar 2026
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
ADicksonLab/OpenRXN
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
A free, open-source tool for modeling chemical reaction networks in Python
Contributions:16 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
pythonreaction-networkpharmacokineticsreaction-diffusionreactions
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