Jeff Wereszczynski is a Professor of Physics and Biology at Illinois Tech. He got his B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He then received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Michigan, where he worked with Ioan Andricioaei on examining structural transitions in nucleic acids and developing methods for sampling of rare events.  He followed this with a post-doc in the group of Andy McCammon at UCSD, where he continued to use and develop molecular dynamics simulations on various protein complexes.  In 2013 he began his faculty position in the Physics department at Illinois Tech.