Prof. Judith Klein-Seetharaman is a Professor at the School of Molecular Sciences and College of Health Solutions, obtaining her PhD with the late Nobel Laureate Har Gobind Khorana at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on conformational changes and folding in the G protein-coupled receptor, rhodopsin. She holds dual undergraduate degrees in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Cologne, Germany. She has published over 150 papers and has received a number of awards including the FP7 People Funded Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship, the Sofya Kovalevskaya Award of the Humboldt Foundation, a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award of the Biophysical Society for her “remarkable work in computational biology embracing the full spectrum of experimental biophysics”. She is also a member of AAAS, Biophysical Society, The Protein Society, ACS, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society MIT Chapter, and ASEE. Her research combines computational and experimental studies on protein structure, dynamics, and function, with particular emphasis on membrane proteins.
