Dr. Zhu earned his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam, where he was a Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher studying the mechanism of allosteric protein receptors via molecular simulation. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, with a focus on the integration of enhanced sampling methods with the framework of Markov State Models. Dr. Zhu’s current research focuses on RNA-protein interactions, the mechanism of RNA/DNA interference, gene-editing, the development of automated path-searching methods, and the integration of machine learning into enhanced sampling techniques.