Alexander Tropsha

Who is Alexander Tropsha?

Alexander Tropsha is a chemist, currently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His principal research interest is quantitative structure-activity and structure-property relationships. Tropsha immigrated to the US in 1989 and started his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991. He is now a full professor and the Chair at the Division where he started his career.

Research in his laboratory includes the development and application of k-nearest neighbor pattern recognition methods to the field of QSARs and application of the Delaunay tessellation technique to protein structure analysis. His recent work focuses on methods of rigorous validation of QSAR models and the development of best-practice QSAR workflows.