Teresa Head-Gordon

Teresa Head-Gordon is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with affiliations in the Department of Chemistry and the Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Her research spans interdisciplinary domains at the intersection of chemistry, bioengineering, and computational science.

• Research Areas: Biomaterials & Nanotechnology, Computational Biology

The Head-Gordon lab focuses on developing computational models and methodologies for molecular liquids, macromolecular assemblies, protein biophysics, and catalysis (both chemical and biological). Her group also advances accelerated sampling methods, multiscale techniques, and machine learning approaches, with software tools widely disseminated for high-performance computing platforms.

Her work bridges nanochemistry, biomolecular engineering, and data-driven scientific computing, emphasizing scalable solutions for complex chemical systems.