Software engineer over at BioLizard (Ghent, Belgium).
Did my PhD (Medicinal Chemistry, KU Leuven, Rega Institute) on the topic of synthetic nucleic acids, using computational chemistry and cheminformatics. I developed forcefields and modelled bespoke xenobiotic nucleic acids, which was facilitated by the Ducque (model builder) and pucke.rs (conformational sampling) tools I created during my research projects.
Feel free to reach out to me on my research and future endeavours!
Python | Rust | Bash | Typst | LaTeX | Lua | Julia | Nextflow
Brief encounters with C | Pascal
- jrihon/Ducque - A model builder to generate models of XNA, with user-implementable analogs, in Python!
- jrihon/puckepy - Python module for QM-based conformational sampling of molecules - written in Rust btw.
- jrihon/puckers - Rust CLI for QM-based conformational sampling of molecules.
- jrihon/mutineer.lua - Extensible commenting plugin for nvim, in Lua.
- jrihon/multi-bibs - Support multiple bibliographies e.g. for thesis manuscripts, in Typst.
I use the kitty terminal emulator and have my prompts customised through starship. To work and manage projects, I use tmux. All my programming and general text editing is done with neovim.
- Modeling the behaviour of synthetic analogs of DNA and RNA
(XNA). - Perform predictions using pure in silico methodologies.
- Use computational chemistry to describe the modified analogs
(QM|force field design|MM). - Developed cheminformatics tools to design a pipeline for model prediction
(programming).
SPOILER ALERT --- GREAT SUCCESS !
computational chemisty | cheminformatics | molecular dynamics | quantum mechanics | molecular mechanics | python | rust | synthetic nucleic acids | XNA | scientific programming | linear algebra | model builder | cli tools