Cecilia Clementi

Cecilia Clementi is an Italian-American scientist who specialises in the simulation of biomolecules. She is a Professor of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics at the Free University of Berlin. She was previously a Professor of Chemistry at the Rice University and co-director of the National Science Foundation Molecular Sciences Software Institute. From 2017 to 2019, she held an Einstein Foundation fellowship.

Early life and education Clementi is from Italy. She studied physics at the University of Florence, where she earned her Laurea in 1995. After graduating in physics, Clementi moved to the International School for Advanced Studies for her doctoral degree. Clementi was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, where she was part of the La Jolla Interfaces in Science programme. After completing her postdoctoral research Clementi was appointed as an assistant professor at Rice University. Her research considers the simulation of complex biophysical processes using large-scale data sets. She specializes in coarse-grain modeling of macromolecular systems. In 2016, Clementi was made co-director of the National Science Foundation Molecular Sciences Software Institute.

Clementi joined the Free University of Berlin in 2017 as an Einstein Foundation fellow, She was the first Einstein Foundation fellow to be appointed to their Strategic Professorships Program.

Clementi was made a Professor of Physics at the Free University of Berlin in June 2020.

More recently, Clementi has collaborated with others to use a machine-learning model to navigate protein landscapes.

Awards and honours

2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2007 Hamill Innovation award 2009 Robert A. Welch Foundation Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research 2014 Hamill Innovation award

Selected publications

The complete list of publication is available on Google scholar

Underwater photography Clementi is also a scuba divemaster and underwater photographer. Some of her photographs are shown in her Instagram page