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Rhiju Das
Born	Houston, Texas
Alma mater	Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics Harvard University Trinity College, Cambridge University College London Stanford University
Known for	EteRNA
Awards	OpenEye/American Chemical Society Burroughs Wellcome Career Award Gold medal, International Physics Olympiad
Scientific career
Fields	computational biologist molecular biophysics crowdsourcing
Institutions	Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	Sebastian Doniach Daniel Herschlag
Website	www.bakerlab.org

Rhiju Das (born 1978 in Houston, Texas) is a computational biochemist and an associate professor of biochemistry and physics at Stanford University. Research in his lab seeks a predictive understanding of how RNA molecules and their complexes form molecular machines fundamental to life. Das was trained as a physicist before switching to biochemistry. His undergraduate education was at Harvard, in physics, followed by master's research as a Marshall scholar at Cambridge University and University College London in experimental cosmology and molecular phylogenetics. He completed his Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University, supervised by Sebastian Doniach and Daniel Herschlag. His postdoctoral work was on protein structure prediction with David Baker at the University of Washington. He joined Stanford’s Biochemistry department in 2009 and was promoted with tenure in 2016.

Das publishes research papers on methods to simulate and computationally design RNA molecules. In addition, Das develops experimental methods to infer RNA structure from multidimensional chemical mapping measurements. Integrating these efforts, Das directs the EteRNA massive open laboratory, which integrates an internet-scale videogame with massively parallel experimental and machine learning. The project aims to empower citizen scientists to invent medicine.

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