About Me

I am currently a postdoc at Rutgers University working with Prof. Darrin York to develop novel drug discovery molecular simulation techniques.

My path to graduate school was slightly non-linear. I graduated from the University of Missouri in Summer of 2017 with my B.S. in Physics. During my time there I worked with Profs. Donald Thompson and Thomas Sewell to study shock propagation using molecular dynamics simulations. Prior to this I had always planned on pursuing a Ph.D. in physics; however, in 2016 I decided to go for a Ph.D. in chemistry instead. To help with this transition, I began working with Profs. Ward Thompson and Brian Laird at the University of Kansas, who became my graduate advisors when I started my Ph.D. program in Chemistry in Fall 2017. Following my Ph.D. in 2021 I joined Prof. Qiang Cui’s group at Boston University as a postdoctoral researcher as part of the National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology (NSF-CSN) where I developed coarse-grained models for nanoplastic-membrane interactions and computational spectroscopy tools for molecular simulations. Finally, in 2024 I moved to Rutgers University to the group of Prof. Darrin York as a postdoc where I took my molecular simulation experience and began applying it towards developing high-throughput drug discovery simulations.

Articles About Me: [1] http://mizzoumagarchives.missouri.edu/2012-Spring/columns/music-the-tie-that-binds/index.php [2] https://chem.ku.edu/ku-chemistry-phd-candidate-zeke-piskulich-earns-nsf-fellowship