Rosana Collepardo Guevara

Rosana Collepardo is a Professor of Computational and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the development of multiscale modelling approaches to investigate the mechanisms that govern DNA packaging inside cells, including the formation of biomolecular condensates. Rosana grew up in Mexico city, where she obtained an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and a specialisation in High-Performance Scientific Computing from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She received a DPhil in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford. She then spent two years as a Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellow at New York University and two years as a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at the Institute for Biomedical Research in Barcelona. In 2013, Rosana moved to the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, she first undertook postdoctoral work with Professors Daan Frenkel and David Wales. In 2016, Rosana was awarded a Winton Advanced Research Fellowship to start her independent research group at the Department of Physics, and in 2019 she obtained an ERC Starting Grant. Rosana became an Assistant Professor at the Departments of Chemistry and Genetics in 2020 and was promoted to Professor in 2022.