Prof. Walker serves as an Assistant Research Professor at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSD and as biosciences lead of the Scientific Applications Computing group at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. He is a principal developer of the AMBER Molecular Dynamics code and has extensive experience in developing and teaching classical and QM/MM molecular dynamics techniques. Prof. Walker holds a Ph.D. and Diploma of Imperial College in Computational Chemistry, a Masters in Science degree in Chemistry from the UK's Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine as well as an Associateship of the Royal College of Science. Prior to joining UCSD Prof. Walker worked as an applications scientist and postdoctoral research scholar at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.

Mark Williamson

Dr. Williamson is a postdoctoral research associate working on developing high performance molecular dynamics engines tailored for HPC resources. He is also the author of the CHAMBER software package which provides support for CHARMM force fields within the AMBER MD engines.

Dr. Goetz is a postdoctoral research associate working on enhanced QM/MM molecular dynamics techniques including improving the semi-empirical and DFTB methods within the AMBER software as well as adding new methods such as DFT via the Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF) software package.

Dr. Xu is a postdoctoral research associate at SDSC and the Department of Chemistry, UCSD. He is working on studying the mechanism of action of the binding module of the cellulase enzyme CBH-I in support of bioethanol research as well as development of GPU accelerated versions of the AMBER software.

Parastou Sadatmousavi

Parastou is a visiting undergraduate student from the Department of Bioengineering at UCSD. She is working on understanding the mechanism of action of the binding module of the Cellulase enzyme CBH-I.

Matthew Clark

Matthew is a high school student from Canyon Crest academy working in the lab for the summer under the Life Sciences Summer Institute Program. He is working jointly with Prithvi Undavalli to develop an interface between the AMBER and the Amsterdam Density Functional programs to support DFT based QM/MM MD simulations.

Prithvi Undavalli

Prithvi is a high school student from Canyon Crest academy working in the lab for the summer under the Life Sciences Summer Institute Program. He is working jointly with Matthew Clark to develop an interface between the AMBER and the Amsterdam Density Functional programs to support DFT based QM/MM MD simulations. 

Age Skjevik

Age was a visiting graduate student from the University of Bergen, Norway. He worked on developing advanced classical force fields for membranes and still maintains an active collaboration with the group.

Thorsten Woelfle

Thorsten was a visiting graduate student from the University of Erlangen, Germany. He worked on developing a Windows port of the AMBER software as well as optimization of the AMBER code. Thorsten also worked on advanced Quantum Mechanical techniques for simulation of condensed phase biological systems.

Paul was a visiting undergraduate student from the University of Hope College, MI. He worked on developing parallel analysis techniques for Molecular Dynamics simulations including a parallel implementation of the AMBER Ptraj software.