Callum Dickson
Principal Scientist at Merck
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCallum Dickson is a Principal Scientist based in Cambridge, MA with a decade of industry experience advancing computational chemistry for drug discovery across Merck, Novartis and Pfizer. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London and specializes in molecular dynamics of membrane proteins, free energy perturbation, QM and force-field development, and structure- and fragment-based discovery supported by strong RDKit/Python chemoinformatics skills. At Novartis he built and led MD/FEP platforms and a CADD team working on allosteric inhibitors, molecular glues and bifunctional degraders, translating physical models into project-impacting predictions. His background spans both academic rigor and industrial delivery—evident from a presidential postdoc on GPCRs and early recognition at Pfizer—and he often blends QM insights with practical docking and permeability modeling to tackle challenging membrane-associated targets.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Chemical Physics with Honours with Industrial Experience, Masters Chemical Physics with Honours with Industrial Experience at The University of EdinburghPhD Computational Chemistry, PhD Computational Chemistry at Imperial College LondonBalerno High School
Github Skills (10)
sbml6
parameterization6
materials-informatics5
structural-biology5
molecular-simulation5
crystallography5
pdb-files5
pluto4
protein-structure3
energy2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
callumjd/AMBER-Membrane_protein_tutorial
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:36 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
callumjd/AMBER-Umbrella_COM_restraint_tutorial
Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:476 commits, 474 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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