Bernd Ensing is a computational chemist who works on molecular modeling algorithms to simulate and understand material behavior and (bio-) molecular processes. He is associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, director of the AI4Science Laboratory, and member of the Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling. After his chemical engineering degree at the Technical University of Twente, Ensing received in 2003 his PhD in theoretical chemistry in the group of Prof. Baerends at the VU University Amsterdam and held subsequently postdoctoral positions in the groups of Prof. Klein at the University of Pennsylvania and Prof. Parrinello at the ETHZ. His current research interests include electro- and bio-mimetic catalysts for renewable fuels, enzyme and photoreceptor proteins, and multiscale behavior in soft matter systems.
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