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Prof. Jan Halborg Jensen

Prof. Jan Halborg Jensen, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark gave a talk on ML4Science Research Café on 19 November under the Chemical Space Exploration series.

Jan H. Jensen received University of Copenhagen’s prestigious Harold Teacher of the Year award. He has co-authored many highly cited publications in the field of biophysical chemistry, theoretical and computational chemistry, and is the author of the book “Molecular Modeling Basics”. He is also a contributor to GAMESS, a popular software for quantum chemical calculations. He has been on the Editorial/Advisory board of various renowned journals such as SciPost Chemistry, PeerJ Physical Chemistry and the preprint medium, ChemRxiv. His talk explored the concept of using genetic algorithms to search chemical space for molecules with interesting properties.