SAN DIEGO, March 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelrys, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation
lifecycle management software and solutions, today announced the
appointment of Accelrys employees Johan
Carlsson, Anne Goupil-Lamy
and Kate Lusczakoski as Fellows on the Accelrys Science
Council. Carlsson, Goupil-Lamy and Lusczakoski respectively bring
to the Council in-depth knowledge and experience in materials
modelling, life sciences research and the use of data analysis to
improve process understanding. The three new Fellows join
Marc Meunier and Senior Fellows
Hugues-Olivier Bertrand, Victor
Milman and Justin Neway as
thought leaders on the Accelrys Science Council which is charged
with guiding the direction and sustaining the high standard of
company-wide scientific innovation along the spectrum from research
to manufacturing.
The Accelrys Fellows play a critical role in transforming the
next generation of informatics technology required by Accelrys
customers. Hugues-Olivier Bertrand
and Anne Goupil will focus on life
sciences research; Victor Milman,
Marc Meunier and Johan Carlsson on materials science and
engineering; and Justin Neway and
Kate Lusczakoski on analytical,
development, quality and manufacturing.
"The Accelrys Science Council congratulates Johan Carlsson, Anne
Goupil-Lamy and Kate
Lusczakoski on their appointments as Accelrys Fellows," said
Hugues-Olivier Bertrand, Ph.D.,
senior director and senior fellow at Accelrys. "The outstanding
scientific and technical accomplishments of these three new members
of our team combined with their deep understanding of our
customers' environments, processes and business issues will help
advance scientific research and innovation across the industries we
serve."
Johan Carlsson,
Ph.D., senior field application scientist and Science
Council Fellow at Accelrys, received his master's in engineering
physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and a doctorate in physics
from the University of Gothenburg.
His research centered around electronic structure calculations for
surfaces and interfaces in metals and metal oxides with a
particular focus on grain boundaries. He subsequently headed the
Nanoporous Carbon group in the theory department of
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin for six years. This research group used
electronic structure calculations to investigate the catalytic
properties of carbon-based materials such as graphene, carbon
nanotubes and nanoporous carbon. In 2008, Carlsson joined the
Contract Research group at Accelrys where he worked on customer
projects including carbon nanotube polymer composites, morphology
of crystallites and metal oxide catalysts. One of these projects
resulted in a joint publication in the Journal of Physical
Chemistry C. As a senior field application scientist at
Accelrys, he helps customers solve their scientific problems using
modelling and simulation techniques. Carlsson has published 18
scientific articles and one book chapter. Three of these articles
have received more than 100 citations. He is regularly asked to
referee manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and invited to speak
at conferences.
Anne Goupil-Lamy,
Ph.D., pre-sales scientist and Science Council Fellow at
Accelrys, obtained her doctorate in molecular biophysics from the
University of Pierre and Marie Curie
(Paris VI, France). She studied
protein dynamics and denaturation using molecular dynamic
simulations and neutron scattering experiments under the
supervision of Professor Jeremy C.
Smith. Goupil-Lamy joined MSI (now Accelrys) in 1998 as a
support scientist and gained expertise in the many modelling areas
supported by Accelrys' life science modelling tools. While managing
Accelrys' contract research group for many years in Europe and worldwide, she performed
feasibility studies, developed proposals and was involved in the
delivery of structure-based design and ligand-based design projects
with one contract resulting in a patent. As a pre-sales scientist,
she has performed several validation studies in fragment-based
design and protein-protein interactions that were presented at
conferences and to customers. She is also involved in
biotherapeutics projects focusing on antibody design.
Kate Lusczakoski,
Ph.D., manager of business consulting and Science Council
Fellow at Accelrys, received her master's in neuropsychology and a
doctorate in applied statistics and research methodology from the
University of Northern Colorado.
Lusczakoski has many years of experience consulting with
pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies, health care organizations
and federal agencies to help them achieve their business
initiatives through the use of statistical applications that
improve operational intelligence and data-driven decision making.
Her research interests reflect her applied consulting experience in
conducting statistical simulation studies to investigate the proper
application of statistical techniques in the
pharmaceutical/biotechnology manufacturing and health care
industries. She has served as an adjunct professor of applied
statistics at leading Colorado
universities, presented at over 35 industry conferences around the
globe and contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications
throughout her career.
Marc Meunier,
Ph.D., principal field application scientist and Science
Council Fellow at Accelrys, holds a master's from Pierre et Marie
Curie University (Fr) and received a doctorate in chemistry from
Bangor University (UK). After
completing his doctorate he worked as a postdoctoral research
fellow at Imperial College, London. He joined Accelrys in 2000 as a
product specialist for materials modelling. Meunier's research
interests include the study of nanodielectrics, the simulation of
polymeric materials used in membrane technology, pharmaceutical
materials science and more recently the growing field of materials
informatics. He is on the editorial board of the journal
Molecular Simulation; his publications appear in Chemical
Physics, Applied Physics and Polymer journals; and he has recently
edited a book entitled "Industrial Applications of Molecular
Simulations."
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About Accelrys, Inc.
Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL), a
leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management
software, supports industries and organizations that rely on
scientific innovation to differentiate themselves. The
industry-leading Accelrys Enterprise Platform provides a broad,
flexible scientific foundation optimized to integrate the diversity
of science, experimental processes and information requirements
across the research, development, QA/QC and manufacturing phases of
product development. Accelrys offers capabilities in scientific
data management, modelling and simulation, research informatics,
laboratory informatics, enterprise quality management,
environmental health & safety and operations intelligence for
customers in science-driven industries. Using Accelrys technology,
scientific innovators can access, organize, analyse and share data
in unprecedented ways across the research, laboratory and
manufacturing continuum, ultimately enhancing innovation, improving
productivity and compliance, reducing costs and accelerating
product development from research to manufacturing.
Accelrys solutions are used by more than 2,000 customers in the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace,
consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries.
Headquartered in San Diego, CA,
Accelrys employs approximately 225 full-time Ph.D. scientists. For
more information about Accelrys, visit www.accelrys.com.
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