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Flaviu Cipcigan, PhD, is a research strategist at IBM Research Europe. His research accelerates the discovery of materials for climate change, with a focus on carbon capture.
Flaviu co-authored a method to accelerate the discovery of antibiotics published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. He led a joint project between IBM Research and a multinational pharmaceutical company to improve collaboration in drug discovery.
He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Edinburgh. There, he created algorithms to design new molecules, which published in Reviews of Modern Physics and PNAS. He also worked on mathematical models for piezoelectirc ceramics.
Flaviu's core technical skills are in computational and data science. He is fluent in the scientific Python stack, high performance computing and molecular dynamics. Flaviu is also a design thinking practitioner.
His awards include the inclusion in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, the class medal for top-in-class performance as an undergraduate student and and two almost-best awards: for his PhD thesis and for his undergraduate research in quantum computing.
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