text: Carlos Simmerling is a full professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  He is associate director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology.  Simmerling received his Bachelor of Arts in 1991 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and then his doctorate in 1994 from the same institution.  His postdoctoral work was performed at the University of California, San Francisco under the direction of Peter Kollman.   His primary field of interest is computational structural biology with a focus on methods of conformational sampling and protein structure prediction. He is a member of the AMBER development team.