Sereina Riniker

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Sereina Zoe Riniker (born January 15, 1985 in Lenzburg ; resident in Habsburg ) is a Swiss chemist .

Life

Riniker studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich and graduated in 2008. Her master's thesis , which she wrote at the Autonomous University of Barcelona , was awarded the IBM Research Prize for Computer Simulations in Chemistry. After an internship in the research department of Givaudan and a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley , she did her PhD in 2012 with Wilfred F. van Gunsteren at the ETH Zurich. From 2012 to 2014 she worked at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) in Basel and Cambridge, Massachusetts .

In 2014, at the age of 29, Riniker became the youngest assistant professor at ETH Zurich and shortly afterwards was recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the world's thirty most promising researchers under thirty. In 2015 she was awarded the Ewald Wicke Prize by the German Bunsen Society . In April 2020 she was promoted to associate professor.

Riniker conducts research in the field of chemoinformatics , where she uses simulations of proteins and molecules to investigate processes at the atomic level. Your research should help pharmaceuticals develop new active ingredients.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ewald Wicke Prize for Sereina Riniker . In: ChemistryViews , Wiley-VCH, May 14, 2015, accessed May 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b NZZ Campus : The Youngest Professor at ETH , April 15, 2015, accessed on May 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger : A great love of detail , May 2, 2016, accessed on May 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ Forbes 30 under 30 2015: Science .
  5. ↑ Sereina Riniker Page of ETH Zurich accessed on April 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Riniker, Sereina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riniker, Sereina Zoe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenzburg