Prof. Dr. Sereina Riniker
Prof. Dr. Sereina Riniker
Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Additional information
Sereina Riniker is currently Associate Professor of Computational Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences. In June 2014, she came as Assistant Professor (with Tenure Track) to ETH Zurich, and was promoted in April 2020 to Associate Professor.
She was born in Switzerland in 1985. In 2008, she completed her Master’s degree in chemistry at ETH Zurich. After an internship in the research department of Givaudan AG and a research stay at the University of California Berkeley, she returned in 2009 to ETH Zurich to obtain a PhD in molecular dynamics simulations. From 2012 to 2014, she held a postdoctoral position in cheminformatics at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Hansch Award 2024, QCMS |
| 2018 | ETH Latsis Prize, Fondation Latsis Internationale |
| 2017 | OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) |
| 2017 | Silver Jubilee Award, Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society (MGMS) |
| 2015 | Ewald-Wicke Prize, German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry |
| 2014 | Teach-Discover-Treat challenge 2014 1st place, OpenEye award |
| 2013 | ETH medal for the doctoral thesis |
| 2010 | IBM Research Prize for Computer Modelling and Simulations in Chemistry, Biology and Material Sciences for the Master thesis |
| 2007 | Oskar Jeger scholarship, ETH Zurich (2007/2008) |