Prior to joining the faculty at Kadir Has University, Sebnem Essiz held post-doctoral scholar positions at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Prof. Andrej Sali’s Lab at  Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Department of Univ. of California, San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in Computational Biophysics from Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA following her BS degree in Chemistry from Koc University, Turkey. Her main research interests are coarse-grained simulation techniques for the study of long time scale conformational dynamics of proteins, ion channel proteins, ligand-induced conformational changes, and enhanced sampling algorithms for homology-based structure prediction tools.