Royal Society University Research Fellow
Room 263
School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
Joseph Black Building, King's Buildings
West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JJ
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)131 650 4797
mail@julienmichel.net

Julien Michel is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.

Julien graduated in 2002 with a double master's degree in Chemical Engineering and Organic Chemistry from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Lille and the Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (France). As an undergraduate student, Julien carried out research projects in homogeneous catalysis at Takasago inc. (Japan) and in medicinal chemistry, protein NMR and molecular modeling at the Institut de Biologie de Lille (France).

He then moved to the UK to pursue postgraduate studies in the field of computational chemistry at the School of Chemistry of the University of Southampton. His PhD research, funded by the pharmaceutical company Astex Therapeutics Ltd., and under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Essex, focused on the development of statistical thermodynamics inspired computational methods to predict binding affinities of protein-ligand complexes. He was awarded a PhD in 2006.

In 2007 he joined the laboratory of Prof. William Jorgensen at the chemistry department of Yale University (USA) to pursue postdoctoral research in the field of computer-aided drug design. He was awarded in 2009 a Marie Curie fellowship to pursue further research at Yale and at the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with Prof. Malcolm Walkinshaw.

Julien was awarded a Royal Society University Research fellowship in 2010 and joined the School of Chemistry to start his independent research career in January 2011.