Andrew Pohorille

Department of Chemistry

University of California, San Francisco


Andrew Pohorille is Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1977. Since 1986 he has been a Principal Investigator in the NASA Exobiology Program. His NASA-related research projects involve molecular-level computer simulations of the structure, functions, and evolution of the earliest living cells; the structure and properties of cometary ices; and high-performance computing. His other research activities are devoted to studying interfacial phenomena, the mechanism of anesthetic action, and functioning of cellular receptors.

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