Nico was a graduate student in the department of Chemistry at New York University. During his PhD, he developed the EATR method for computing unbiased rates from biased molecular dynamics simulations in collaboration with Pilar Cossio. For this research , he was awarded the Margaret Strauss Kramer, a Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry graduate fellowship; he also was suppored by the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute. He completed his undergraduate degree at St. John’s University, where he majored in Chemistry and minored in Mathematics. His undergraduate research involved performing Gaussian-accelerated MD on the alpha-synuclein protein.
