Andrew Ferguson
University of Chicago
Biography
Andrew Ferguson is an Associate Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He earned an M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2005, a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University in 2010, and from 2010 to 2012 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He commenced his independent career in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2012.
His research uses molecular simulation, statistical thermodynamics, and machine learning to understand and engineer self-assembling and biomolecular materials. Ferguson is the recipient of a 2020 Dreyfus Foundation Award for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering and a 2018/19 Junior Moulton Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
RSC affiliations
Editors-in-Chief, MSDE (Molecular Systems Design & Engineering)
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