Current Postdocs
Zhongyi Wan
Postdoctoral Fellow (07/2024-present)
Zhongyi received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Peking University in 2018. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024, where he worked with Prof. JR Schmidt on developing models and theories of solid-phase epitaxy in polymorphic complex oxides. Zhongyi started postdoctoral research in the Cui Group since July 2024. As a part of the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, he is now investigating the peptide-membrane interaction including permeation and pore formation using machine learning-aided sampling techniques.
Postdoctoral Fellow (03/2025-present)
Sudip received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry in 2012 and his M.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry in 2014 from Visva Bharati University, India. He was awarded his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 2020 from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India, where he worked with Prof. S. Balasubramanian on studying the interfacial activation and thermostability of enzymes using molecular dynamics simulations and enhanced sampling techniques. He then joined Prof. Michele Parrinello’s group at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa as a postdoctoral researcher, where he conducted research on enzyme catalysis by integrating machine learning with enhanced sampling. Sudip started his postdoctoral research in Prof. Cui’s Group in March 2025, where he is investigating protein condensate-membrane interactions using machine learning-aided enhanced sampling techniques. Apart from science, Sudip is passionate about literature, arts, music, movies, and theatre.
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