Center for Nonlinear Studies

David Wych

Postdoc
CCS-3, CNLS

Crystallography, Diffuse Scattering, MD Simulations, High-performance Computing

David Wych

Office: TA-03, Building 1690, Room 103
Mail Stop: B258
Phone: (505) 000-0000
Fax: (505) 665-2659
Email: dwych@lanl.gov
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Educational Background/Employment:

B.A. (2015) Physics, Claremont McKenna College
Ph.D. (2021) Pharmaceutical Sciences (Research Focus: Crystallography, Diffuse Scattering, MD Simulation), UC Irvine
Employment:
- 2015-2016 Tutor, Revolution Prep, Santa Monica, CA
- 2016-2021 Graduate Student and Instructor, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
- 2018 Applied Machine Learning Summer Fellow, LANL, Los Alamos, NM
- 2019 Graduate Student Assistant, LANL, Los Alamos, NM
- 2020 Virtual Summer Intern, LANL, Los Alamos, NM
- 2021-present, Post-doctoral Researcher, LANL, Los Alamos, NM

Research Interests:

Characterizing the correlated motions which contribute to diffuse (non-Bragg) scattering through Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of protein crystals
Improving the modelling of crystallographic structure and dissorder through MD simulation of protein crystals and Bragg scattering data

Selected Recent Publications:

Wych, D.C., Wall, M.E., Mobley D.L., Fraser, J.S. Liquid-like and rigid-body motions in molecular dynamics simulations of crystalline proteins, Structural Dynamics. 6,06704 (2019)