Francesca Grisoni
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the TU/e, where I lead the Molecular Machine Learning group. Our research focuses on developing cutting-edge AI technology to accelerate drug discovery, at the interface of computation and experiments. I received my Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Milano-Bicocca, where I developed interpretable AI for molecular property prediction. My research has been recognized with several grants and awards, including the Early Career Award from the Dutch Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Lush Young Researcher Prize, and an ERC Starting Grant. My mission is to push the boundaries of AI for the molecular sciences, to ultimately augment human creativity in the discovery of next-generation therapeutics.