Luis Itza Vazquez-Salazar

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My name is Luis Itza Vazquez-Salazar. I am a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral fellow in Physics (Although I am a chemist) in the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University with Prof. Dr. Tristan Bereau.

My research is quite varied. I am interested in the influence of training data on the performance of machine learning models in chemistry, uncertainty quantification in atomistic machine learning models, characterization of reactive processes, automatic construction of machine learning potential energy surfaces, backmapping between different molecular resolutions, use of generative models in Chemistry, exploration of chemical space, etc.

Previously, I finished my PhD in Chemistry at the University of Basel in the group of Prof. Dr. Markus Meuwly working on the interface of molecular simulations and machine learning techniques. Before Switzerland, I did a TCCM master at the Universty of Groningen on the Theoretical Chemistry Group. My master thesis was in combination with the Molecular Dynamics Group under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Siewert-Jan Marrink and Dr. Paulo Telles de Souza on the development of new coarse grain models for imidazolium-based ionic liquids with the MARTINI force field.