TCBG Profile
| Diego E. B. Gomes is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Physics at Auburn University and the Lead Developer of VMD 2, the next generation of the widely used molecular visualization program developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group. With over 15 years of experience in computational biophysics, molecular modeling, high-performance computing (HPC) software development, and cheminformatics, he is also a core developer of CyberShuttle, an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure platform for accelerating scientific workflows. His work has produced major software and methodological contributions, including ChemFlow for high-throughput cheminformatics and the Glycine Receptor Allosteric Ligands Library (GRALL). His research spans mechanobiology, AI-driven antibody engineering, drug discovery, and machine-learning approaches for predicting binding free energies. Dr. Gomes earned his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, followed by postdoctoral work in France at ENS Cachan and the University of Strasbourg. He later founded the Computational Biology Laboratory at INMETRO, Brazil's national metrology institute. He has played a leading role in developing scalable, multiscale computational frameworks and is deeply involved in training and outreach for the computational biophysics community. |  Diego Barreto Gomes |
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