William L. Jorgensen

Who is William L. Jorgensen?

William L. Jorgensen is a Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. He is considered a pioneer in the field of computational chemistry. Some of his contributions include the TIP3P, TIP4P, and TIP5P water models, the OPLS force field, and his work on free-energy perturbation theory for modeling reactions in solution; he has over 300 publications in the field. Jorgensen currently holds the position of editor of the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, and was formerly the editor of the Journal of Computational Chemistry and one of the editors of the Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry. He holds positions on the editorial advisory boards of several other journals, has been involved in the founding of multiple biotechnology companies. Jorgensen also develops and sells software to pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and academic researchers for drug design and other research applications.