Dr. János Daru

obtained his BSc in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2009) and his MSc in Computational Reaction Mechanism studies (2011). His Doctoral thesis (“Theoretical investigation of reaction mechanism - from methodological development to applications”) was defended in 2015 at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

He conducted his post-doctoral research in the group of Domnik Marx, where he studied solvation effects and developed high-accuracy machine learning force fields in collaboration with Jörg Behler.

Since 2021, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Organic Chemistry Department of Eötvös Loránd University.

Research interest: Development of Machine Learning Potentials, Molecular Dynamics, Free Energy Methods, Rate Constant Calculations for Elementary Reactions, Mechanistic Studies, Organic and Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis