Vanessa Oklejas

Vanessa Oklejas is a motivated and experienced computational chemist currently serving as a Senior Staff Materials and Process Engineer at Lockheed Martin. They previously held positions as a Staff Computational Chemist at Zymergen, a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at The Aerospace Corporation, and postdoctoral roles at Stanford University and the University of California at San Diego. Vanessa holds a Ph.D. and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Utah, along with a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan. Throughout their career, they have developed innovative computational tools and methodologies to advance drug and materials discovery.