Eliane Briand

Postdoc. (Biophysical) Simulation, Scientific Computing, Bayes, Method development and implementation.
Background in Biological and Pharmaceutical sciences.

For the non-academic CV with just the important stuff, see here

Looking for	PostdocBiophysics, chemistry and simulations
	Engineering positionOpen to anything R&D and interesting
When	6-12 months from now
Where	Western Europe or remote

E-mail: eliane@br.iand.fr
Website: eliane.br.iand.fr
Location: Göttingen, Germany

Skills

Computer science

Programming	C++8+ years of experience
	Python \| Jax \| CUDA
	Modern software engineering practices Unit testing, CI/CD, Git, Claude Code, Docker ...
Scientific Computing	HPC
Open source	Contributor to GROMACS
Gitlab	@ElianeBriand

Bayesian Statistics

State space models	HMM and beyond
Non-Parametrics	Function inference
Implementation	PyMC \| Jax \| BlackJax

Biophysics

Molecular dynamics	GROMACS
	Using and extending with new methodologies
Chemoinformatics	RDKit & OpenBabel
	Docking

Employment

Postdoc @ Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences Currently

Department: Theoretical and computational biophysics ^[link]

Topic: Expanding lambda dynamics, Bayesian analysis

PhD @ Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences 2021–2024

Department: Theoretical and computational biophysics ^[link]

Topic: Lambda dynamics for constant pH MD simulation (in Gromacs)

Grade: Summa cum laude

Publications

ORCID

| Google Scholar | Semantic Scholar

Articles

Constant pH Simulation with FMM Electrostatics in GROMACS. (A) Design and Applications

Briand, E.; Kohnke B.; Kutzner C.; Grubmüller H.

2024 | JCTC | [DOI]
See also: (B) GPU Accelerated Hamiltonian Interpolation [DOI]

Combined Ensemble Docking and Machine Learning in Identification of Therapeutic Agents with Potential Inhibitory Effect on Human CES1

Briand, E.; Thomsen, R.; Linnet, K.; Rasmussen, H.B.; Brunak, S.; Taboureau, O.

2019 | Molecules | [DOI][PubMed]

Conferences

GGMM XXIVth congress 2025

Forges-les-Eaux, France. Talk: Bayesian Analysis of Constant pH MD.

Biophysics at the Dawn of Exascale Computers 2022

Hamburg, Germany. American Biophysics Society satellite meeting. Talk: Constant pH MD in GROMACS.

Hünfeld Workshop on Computer Simulation
and Theory of Macromolecules 2021–2026

Hünfeld, Germany. Attended each year (poster). Talk in 2022, 2025 (Constant pH MD). Best Poster in 2026 (Bayesian inference of Brownian Diffusion).

Participation in organization as part of Grubmüller department

Education

Paris Diderot University 2019–2020

Master of bioinformatics & in silico drug design

Paris Diderot University is now part of Paris Cite university

Paris Sud University 2013–2019

(French) Pharmacy school

Bachelor and Master at Paris Sud Chatenay campus (a.k.a now Paris Saclay)

Paris Sud University is now part of Paris Saclay university

Misc

Language	French native speaker
	Fluent English

I do some web design, mostly with the Angular framework.
Examples: [PlasmidSketcher] | [Chemoinfo Snippets]