Leif Jacobson

Leif Jacobson is a Senior Principal Scientist at Schrödinger, with a career spanning from November 2013 to the present, focusing on the development and application of machine learned potential energy functions in life and materials sciences. Previously, Leif held positions as Principal Scientist, Associate Principal Scientist, and Senior Scientist at Schrödinger, where responsibilities included leading scientific software development for reaction workflows, creating tools for transition state geometry prediction, and designing automated workflows using quantum chemistry. Prior experience includes a Postdoctoral Associate position at Yale University, researching non-adiabatic effects in surface scattering, and a Graduate Research Assistant role at The Ohio State University, where research involved modeling the aqueous electron and contributing to electronic structure algorithms in Q-Chem. Leif earned a PhD in Chemistry from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Central Washington University.