Farnaz Heidar Zadeh

Farnaz completed her dual Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry (McMaster University) and physics (Ghent University) for which she was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Medal in 2017. She was then hosted as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Luxembourg, and is currently a FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Molecular Modeling, Ghent University. Her research focuses on developing new mathematical tools, numerical algorithms and computer software to qualitatively and quantitatively predict the outcome of chemical phenomena, using strategies from quantum chemistry and machine-learning. She has published >30 peer-reviewed articles and leads development of the ChemTools software package.