ISQBP Loew Lectureship

The 2026 ISQBP Gilda Loew Lecture is awarded to Dr. Zoe Cournia for her outstanding contributions in various scientific topics which were at the core of Gilda Loew’s interests.

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Dr. Cournia is Director of Research at the Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens. She graduated from the Chemistry Department, University of Athens in 2001 and received her PhD at the University of Heidelberg in Germany in 2006. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chemistry Department, Yale University, USA, on computer-aided drug design with Prof. Bill Jorgensen. She has been awarded with the American Association for Cancer Research Angiogenesis Fellowship (2008), the “Woman of Innovation 2009” Award from the Connecticut Technology Council, USA, the Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union (2010), the “Outstanding Junior Faculty Award” from the American Chemical Society (2014) and the first “Ada Lovelace Award” from the “Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe” (2016). She was a member of the Infrastructure Advisory Group (INFRAG) of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking in 2018-2021 and in 2022 she was appointed as the Greek representative in the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking. She is an Executive Editor with the Journal of Chemical information and Modeling, American Chemical Society and the national representative of Greece in the Division of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry in the European Chemical Society.