Cameron F Abrams

Cameron Abrams, PhD is Professor and Department Head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He received a BS in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1995 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California—Berkeley in 2000. After two years of postdoctoral training at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, he joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2002. Abrams’s primary research expertise lies in molecular simulations and new simulation method development, with applications ranging from new materials and fluids to drug design. He is the recipient of an ONR Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and was the 2015 Impact Award Winner in the Computational Molecular Sciences and Engineering Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In additional to novel molecular simulation methods, Abrams’s research interests include high-performance materials, protein-related kinetics and thermodynamics, and HIV-1 entry inhibitor design.