About Willmor Peña

Willmor was a PhD student and for 1 year a postdoctoral scholar in the Hocky group at NYU, having completed his PhD in 2025. He is originally from Peru but has resided in New York for many years. Will focused on method development and computational study of micro and macroscopic behavior of molecular systems and materials. He started pursuing computational chemistry during his undergraduate studies at Iona College, where he studied hydrogen gas storage in IR-MOFs and water permeation through lipid bilayers via analysis of MD simulations. His non-academic interests include literary fiction, andean music, and chordophone and woodwind instruments.