Richard A. Friesner
Department of Chemistry
3000 Broadway, mail code 3110
New York , NY 10027

work : +1 212-854-7606
fax : +1 212-854-7454
rich@chem.columbia.edu


Friesner Group

Research Areas


Major research fields and current projects:

1.    Development of ab initio electronic structure methods

2.    Modeling of semiconductor clusters

3.    Development and testing of molecular mechanics force fields

4.    Computational algorithms for protein folding and structural refinement

5.    Development of dielectric continuum methods for treating molecular solvation

6.    Modeling enzyme reactions

7.    Protein-ligand binding calculations