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Organising team

Organising committee


Cate Anstöter

Cate Anstöter

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Current Chair

Cate joined the organizing team in 2021, becoming Chair in 2024. She holds a Christine Miller Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and her research involves using a computational toolkit to understand electron driven phenomena. Prior to her independent position, Cate has worked in spectroscopy, computational and theoretical chemistry groups, in the UK, Russia e os EUA.

Julianna Oláh

Julianna Oláh

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Founder

Julianna has been a member of the organizing team since the first Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry in 2015. She is an associate professor and leads the Computational Bioinorganic Chemistry Group at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. She specializes in the modelling of transition metal complexes and metalloenzymes with a focus on systems relevant to human health. She has three daughters and she finds it very important to pass on her love of chemistry to younger generations.

Milica Feldt

Milica Feldt

Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Germany

Milica joined the organizing team in 2019. She is currently working as a group leader at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany. Her main research interest is computational studies of transition metal catalysis.

Henrique Castro

Henrique Castro

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio do Sul, Brazil

Henrique attends the VWSCC since 2017 and joined the organizing committee in 2021. He is a post-doc researcher at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul working with ab initio calculations for molecular magnetism and organic photochemistry.

Robert Q. Topper

Robert Q. Topper

The Cooper Union, New York NY USA

Robert is a professor of chemistry in the School of Engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. A former principal organizer of the Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference, he joined the VWSCC organizing team in 2022. His research is currently focused on the development and application of new methods in stochastic sampling, machine learning, and quantum chemistry to problems of environmental interest.

Sandra Gómez

Sandra Gómez

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES

Sandra joined the organizing team in 2023. She is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Her main line of research focuses on simulating light-induced processes in complex molecular systems using quantum and mixed nonadiabatic dynamics methods, with applications in optoelectronics, anticancer therapies, and bioimaging.

Lea M. Ibele

Lea M. Ibele

Institute Chimie-Physique at University Paris-Saclay/CNRS

Lea joined the organizing team in 2023. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute Chimie-Physique at University Paris-Saclay/CNRS, and focuses on the development and applications of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics approaches in research.

Ben Goldmann

Ben Goldmann

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Ben joined the organizing team in 2024. He is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh. His research is concerned with investigating polymers for lubricants and dispersives applications using molecular dynamics simulations.

My-Phuong Pham-Ho

My-Phuong Pham-Ho

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Viet Nam

My-Phuong joined the organization in 2024. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering at HCMUT in Vietnam, followed by a PhD from the University of Utah in the USA. Since 2011, she has been a lecturer at HCMUT where she conducts research on boron/silicon clusters doping metals. Her work focuses on exploring these novel materials for potential applications in hydrogen storage and carbon dioxide capture.

Ephrath Solel Moroshko

Ephrath Solel Moroshko

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Ephrath joined the organizing team in 2024. She is a Lecturer in Computational Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on computational studies of reactivity in organic and inorganic reactions, quantum tunneling, reaction mechanisms, and noncovalent interactions.

Former Committee Members


Goedele Roos

Goedele Roos

CNRS UMR 8576, Université de Lille, France

Founder & Former Chair

Goedele works as CNRS researcher at the Unité de glycobiologie structurale et fonctionnelle (UGSF, Univ. Lille, France). She founded the Winter School initiative in 2015 with the help of Julianna Oláh (Budapest University, Hungary), Andreas Savin (CNRS, UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France), and others. After seven editions of the Winter School, her focus returned to her research activities in the field of computational (redox)biochemistry.

Rebecca Ingle

Rebecca Ingle

University College London, London, UK

Chair until 2024

Rebecca has been a member of the organizing team since 2016 and was the chair until the 2024 event. She is a Lecturer at University College London and her research involves the development of ultrafast optical and X-ray spectroscopies for studying molecular systems in combination with the application of different computational approaches.

Rika Kobayashi

Rika Kobayashi

Australian National University, Australia

Rika has been with the organising team since 2018. She is a computational chemist at Australia's NCI Supercomputer Facility. Her background is in ab initio method development and implementation, especially coupled cluster theory. Her current interests are in Machine Learning and remote collaboration initiatives.

Dominique Buyens

Dominique Buyens

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Dominique joined the organizing team in 2022. She has recently finished her Ph.D. at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in chemistry education. Her main interests are in experimental and theoretical chemical and enzyme kinetics, with specialization in NMR and UV spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.

Technical Support


Marc Dechèvre

Marc Dechèvre

Belgium

Marc loves Open Source in general and Joomla in particular (Joomla is the Content Management System to build this website).

Marc is always very happy to share his knowledge. See for example his numerous presentations around the globe on slides.woluweb.be 

Jurgen Gaeremyn

Jurgen Gaeremyn

Belgium

Jurgen is a tech enthusiast with a long standing experience in Joomla and webdesign. As an avid open source advocate, he believes that knowledge should be made accessible wherever possible. For this reason, he stepped into the Winter School project from the very beginning.

Oleg B. Gadzhiev

Oleg B. Gadzhiev

G.G. Devyatykh Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, Russia

Oleg joined the Organising committee in 2017 volunteering and organizing in practical and technical aspects. Research interests concentrate but not limit to theoretical treatment of reaction mechanisms by state-of-the art (multireference and novel) quantum chemical methods, molecular (metal-free and metal-organic) catalysts, platinum and platinum-based nanocatalysts for stereo-and regioselective hydrogenation, development of chemical and kinetic models for material design and chemical vapor deposition.

Former Members


Former members

  • Irina Paci, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • Ajit Thakkar, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada     
Financial Support

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is pleased to provide support for the 2024 VWSCC through a generous donation from Alan Fortier.

We thank Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) and CECAM for their support.