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Curriculum vitae

Simon Dürr

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Education
11/2019 - now
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PhD Student at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Design of stable and functional metalloproteins with evolutionary algorithms, deep learning and simulations
10/2016 - 09/2019
M.Sc Life Science at University of Konstanz, Germany
Focus on computational chemistry and structural biology, with distinction
08/2017 - 06/2018
Exchange Chemistry Department, Upppsala University, Sweden
Computational Quantum Chemistry and Protein Engineering
10/2013 - 09/2016
B.Sc Life Science University of Konstanz, Germany
Research experience
08/2022 - 10/2022
Visiting researcher at Stanford University, US
Possu Huang lab
10/2018 - 07/2019
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Masterthesis LCBC, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Computational Enzyme Design with QM/MM simulations and evolutionary algorithms
01/2018 - 05/2018
Research Internship Research Internship, Kamerlin Lab, ICM, Uppsala University, Sweden QM/MM Refinement
06/2016 - 09/2016
Research Internship Diederichs Lab (Department of Biology) and Peter Lab (Department of Chemistry) University of Konstanz, Germany
QM/MM Refinement
06/2016 - 09/2016
Bachelorthesis Rosta Lab, Department of Chemistry, Kings College London
QM/MM Simulations
08/2015 - 10/2015
Research Internship Pelletier Lab, Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal
MD Simulations, Implicit Ligand Sampling
Scholarships and Awards
2022
Firmenich EPFL-Stanford Fellow
2013 - 2019
German National Academic Foundation
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
08/2015 - 10/2015
German Academic Exchange service
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

Languages
German (native), English (C2), French (C2), Spanish (B2), Swedish (B1)

Programming
Python incl. optimization using e.g numba, PyTorch, Bash, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Vue, Svelte

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