Team
Current
Raphael Desrues
PhD student, Institut des Sciences Analytiques (ISA) / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, since October 2026
Molecular mechanisms of Myosin 18 regulatory functions from molecular simulations
Role: Main supervisor Co-supervisors: Olivier Walker Funding: ANR MyoAssemble
Research internship (after an MSc in In Silico Drug Design, Université Paris Cité), February - July 2026
Gas-phase oligomerization of peptides
Role: Co-supervisor Co-supervisors: Fabien Chirot (ILM)
Open positions
Former trainees
- Junghwan Ro — M1 student, Chimie et Science des Matériaux, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, May - July 2026: Lignin characterization by NMR and MD simulations (Co-supervisor, with Hugo Lilti, Léa Vilcocq (IRCELYON))
- Rim Annad — M1 student, Bio-informatique, Université Clermont Auvergne, May - July 2025: Coarse-grained simulations of an intrinsically disordered metalloprotein (Main supervisor, with Olivier Walker)
- Matthieu Andriamisetra — L3 student, Sciences de la Vie, parcours Biochimie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, March - May 2025: Kinetic analysis of metal-induced peptide folding (Main supervisor, with Olivier Walker)
- Mélodie Demontrond — M1 student, Analyse et Contrôle, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, March - May 2024: Machine learning analysis of peptide simulations (Main supervisor, with Olivier Walker)
- Fanny Cuesta — Master's thesis (part-time), Biophysics, Goethe University Frankfurt, February 2022 - April 2025: Computational study of ATP Synthase c-ring and central stalk (Main supervisor, with Gerhard Hummer)
Student project supervision
- Louison Grizard, Axel Lukaszewicz — Engineering students, CPE Lyon, April - May 2026 (19 days): Analysis of silver-binding peptide simulations (Supervisor)
- Victor Boudet, Enzo Guedes — Engineering students, CPE Lyon, April - May 2025 (19 days): Analysis of silver-binding peptide simulations (Supervisor)