István Kolossváry
Principal Scientist, Pioneering Intelligence

István Kolossváry joined »Æ¹ÏÊÓÆµapp in 2025 as a Principal Scientist in biomolecular simulations for Pioneering Intelligence, where he develops and deploys advanced molecular dynamics simulation methods as part of ongoing AI research.
István has been a researcher at various universities and pharmaceutical research labs in Europe and the United States, including Columbia University, Novartis, and DE Shaw Research. He won the 2006 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Book Award in Chemistry for co-authoring "Introduction to Computer-Aided Drug Design," and he was a member of the original core team at D.E. Shaw Research that built the Gordon Bell Prize-winning Anton supercomputer for molecular dynamics simulations. István has been working in the computational drug discovery field for 35 years, with a specific focus on protein motion and conformational free energy simulations.
He holds multiple advanced degrees from the Budapest University of Technology and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
