Brenda Rubenstein

Dr. Brenda Rubenstein is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Brown University. While much of her group works on electronic structure theory, computational biophysics, and quantum computing, she is also deeply engaged in rethinking computing architectures. Prior to arriving at Brown, she was a Lawrence Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She received her Sc.B.s in Chemical Physics and Applied Mathematics at Brown University, her M.Phil. in Computational Chemistry while a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics while a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow at Columbia University.