Dr. Dror employs a broad range of computational methods to study the spatial organization and dynamics of biomolecules and cells. Before joining Stanford, Dr. Dror served as second-in-command of D. E. Shaw Research, a hundred-person company, where he focused on high-performance computing and biomolecular simulation (part of a project highlighted by Science as one of the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2010). Dr. Dror earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and an MPhil in Biological Sciences as a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge.