I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Merced in theoretical chemistry, focusing on the development of molecular dynamics techniques and density functional theory models for the prediction of condense phase spectroscopy. For my Ph.D., my research focused on the development of molecular dynamics algorithms informed from density functional theory to study various biomolecules. My work is highly coding based and overlaps nicely with data science and machine learning. I also have a background in computer science, software development, and teaching.

Some of my favorite projects include:

• AmberFD library for extending OpenMM with a fluctuating density model (In review, ChemRxiv). Also check out it's documentation!
• CoSIMS: A Collision Simulator for Ion Mobility Spectrometry. Published in J. Phys. Chem. B 2019.
• A Python based QM/MM interface that links OpenMM and Q-Chem

• Advanced fluency in C++ and Python.
• Intermediate fluency in C, C#, Java, Matlab, Bash, Mathematica, LaTeX.
• Experienced with the procedures for designing, optimizing, and documenting new software.
• Unix operating systems, Git and GitHub versioning software.
• OpenMP parallelization

Experience with numerical optimization techniques, numerical integration, and linear algebra. Strong background in density functional theory and molecular mechanics algorithms. Familiar with Bayesian, maximum entropy and machine learning algorithms.

Feel free to reach out to me at either my email

• 📫 cmyers7@ucmerced, myerschris92@gmail.com, or you can message me on LinkedIn:
• LinkedIn

If you're interested in my research, you might enjoy reading some of my publications:

1. Christopher A. Myers, Alan A. Chen. A Fluctuating Density Energy Model for RNA Nucleobase Interactions. ChemRxiv

2. Mengwen Yan, Christopher A. Myers, Gregory M. John, Vincent E. Meyers, Alan A. Chen, Jeremy I. Feldblyum. Probing the Edges between Stability and Degradation of a Series of ZnSe-Based Layered Hybrid Semiconductors. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2022.

3. Rebecca J. D'Esposito, Christopher A. Myers, Alan A. Chen, and Sweta Vangaveti, Challenges with simulating modified RNA: Insights into role and reciprocity of experimental and computational approaches. Genes 2022.

4. Christopher A. Myers, Rebecca J. D’Esposito, Daniele Fabris, Srivathsan V. Ranganathan, Alan A. Chen. CoSIMS: A Collision Simulator for Ion Mobility Spectrometry. J. Phys. Chem. B 2019.

   • Software can be found at the CoSIMS Repo!

5. Srivathsan V. Ranganathan, Ken Halvorsen, Christopher A. Myers, Neil M. Robertson, Mehmet V. Yigit, Alan A. Chen. Complex Thermodynamic Behavior of Single-Stranded Nucleic Acid Adsorption to Graphene Surfaces. Langmuir 2016.