Sara Capponi

Sara Capponi, Ph.D., is a research staff member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center with training in physics, computational biophysics, and biochemistry. At IBM Research, she leverages her expertise to combine molecular modeling with cellular engineering. Capponi holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Donostia International Physics Center in Spain. Prior joining IBM Research at Almaden, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, San Francisco. Capponi’s contributions range from studies on macromolecular systems like membrane or viral proteins to works on water dynamics and structure. She has made use of different computational approaches during her career, including molecular dynamics, enhanced sampling techniques, agent-based models, and machine learning methods for data analysis.