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Maarten Dobbelaere

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Cheminformatics, AI in Chemistry Postdoc @EPFL @FWOVlaanderen πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­ β€’ Connecting machine learning and chemical engineering for intelligent chemical processes mrodobbe.github.io

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Semi-Empirical Evaluation of Hindered Internal Rotors for Accelerated Thermodynamics Predictions Accurate determination of a molecule’s thermodynamic properties using quantum chemistry methods is crucial for developing kinetic models. A vital step in the quantum chemical workflow is calculating t...

Check out Lowie's latest work. By using a second-derivative correction, the semiempirical GFN2-xTB method accelerates the generation of hindered-rotor torsional energy profiles by a factor of 700 with near-DFT accuracy, massively speeding up thermodynamic workflows. #ChemSky

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25.02.2026 06:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Semi-Empirical Evaluation of Hindered Internal Rotors for Accelerated Thermodynamics Predictions Accurate determination of a molecule’s thermodynamic properties using quantum chemistry methods is crucial for developing kinetic models. A vital step in the quantum chemical workflow is calculating t...

Check out Lowie's latest work. By using a second-derivative correction, the semiempirical GFN2-xTB method accelerates the generation of hindered-rotor torsional energy profiles by a factor of 700 with near-DFT accuracy, massively speeding up thermodynamic workflows. #ChemSky

doi.org/10.1021/acs....

25.02.2026 06:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to share a career update! This week, I started my 4-month stay in the LIAC lab with @pschwllr.bsky.social at EPFL, as part of my FWO-funded postdoc. Very much looking forward to collaborating with the team, and happy to connect with the Swiss AI for science community. #ChemSky #AI4Science

06.02.2026 07:45 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to share a career update! This week, I started my 4-month stay in the LIAC lab with @pschwllr.bsky.social at EPFL, as part of my FWO-funded postdoc. Very much looking forward to collaborating with the team, and happy to connect with the Swiss AI for science community. #ChemSky #AI4Science

06.02.2026 07:45 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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KΓΌnstliche Intelligenz: Β»KI hat meine Erwartungen sogar ΓΌbertroffenΒ« In der Forschung werden KI und Maschinenlern-Techniken immer wichtiger, erklΓ€rt der Chemiker Maarten Dobbelaere.

In der Forschung wird bald nichts mehr ohne KI gehen, erklΓ€rt der Chemiker Maarten Dobbelaere im Interview. Aber welche KI? Β»Die bahnbrechende KI-Anwendung der Zukunft wird mΓΆglicherweise nicht das sein, was man heute unter KI verstehtΒ«, sagt er. #repost

29.09.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to this great event!

14.08.2025 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An extreme example of why the h-index without self-citations is interesting

04.08.2025 07:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rxn-INSIGHT documentation β€” Rxn-INSIGHT 0.1.2 documentation

πŸ§‘πŸ½β€πŸ”¬ Our reaction analysis tool Rxn-INSIGHT has been downloaded thousands of times since the documentation release (rxn-insight.readthedocs.io)! We're continually working to improve it and would now love to hear your feedback. #ChemSky (1/2)

31.07.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Have you used Rxn-INSIGHT? Let us know how you're using Rxn-INSIGHT, what features you find helpful, and what improvements you’d like to see.

31.07.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rxn-INSIGHT documentation β€” Rxn-INSIGHT 0.1.2 documentation

πŸ§‘πŸ½β€πŸ”¬ Our reaction analysis tool Rxn-INSIGHT has been downloaded thousands of times since the documentation release (rxn-insight.readthedocs.io)! We're continually working to improve it and would now love to hear your feedback. #ChemSky (1/2)

31.07.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How long till "Killed by Google"?

29.07.2025 16:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The difficulty in actually finding these numbers tells me enough about what the creators at Google think about it. πŸ˜…

28.07.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Scholar has "released" their h5-index for journals again, and this tells me nothing more than the number of review papers published by a journal. Perhaps, if we normalise the h5-index by the number of papers published in that journal, we might obtain a somewhat valuable indicator... #ChemSky

28.07.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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A good day to take out the bike and enjoy gravel roads

11.07.2025 15:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lyon, a wonderful city by day and night. Perfect setting for a fruitful TransPharm general assembly meeting, bringing together AI, #GreenChemistry, and ecotox research

02.07.2025 08:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In an extremely hot but beautiful Lyon for our annual meeting of the Horizon Europe project TransPharm (Transforming into a sustainable European pharmaceutical sector) where AI, synthesis, and ecotox meet to discover greener pharmaceuticals

@chsteven.bsky.social

#chemsky #GreenChemistry

30.06.2025 12:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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That brings my visit to the University of York to an end. It was lovely to see all the great green chemistry research being done here and to meet many new people! For now, looking forward to new adventures #chemsky #GreenChemistry #chemengsky

27.06.2025 08:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy to give a seminar in York on Friday on digitalising chemical reaction engineering, all welcome! #chemsky #chemengsky #GreenChemistry

16.06.2025 12:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Campus of the University of York

Campus of the University of York

Summer in England!

11.06.2025 15:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today in the photogenic city of Leeds

07.06.2025 15:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cheminformatics family businesses be like

06.06.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Visiting the University of York till the end of June. If anyone in the UK likes to chat about AI/ML in chemistry/ChemE, green chemistry, flow chemistry, or show me around their lab; I would love to connect and meet up!

03.06.2025 08:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What a week! I’m incredibly honoured to have been awarded a junior postdoctoral fellowship from @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social, with only 16.1% of applications funded this year.

This fellowship, hosted by UGent and VIB, allows me to work on self-driving labs and collaborate with leaders in the field!

22.05.2025 08:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, it really is memorable!

22.05.2025 08:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

22.05.2025 08:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What a week! I’m incredibly honoured to have been awarded a junior postdoctoral fellowship from @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social, with only 16.1% of applications funded this year.

This fellowship, hosted by UGent and VIB, allows me to work on self-driving labs and collaborate with leaders in the field!

22.05.2025 08:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ“ Proud to share that I successfully defended my PhD in Chemical Engineering at Ghent University yesterday with my dissertation titled "Molecular Machine Learning for Chemical Reaction Engineering"!

πŸš€ Excited for what’s ahead and to further contribute to #AIforChemistry!

#Chemsky #PhDone

20.05.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

On my way to La Rochelle for the International Symposium on Green Chemistry (#ISGC). Looking forward to this event and happy to meet new people! Find me in Room 4 on Monday (talks at 14:00 and 15:30/45)!

#greenchemistry

10.05.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Deepwiki is awesome! It creates a wiki for every GitHub repository by replacing github.com by deepwiki.com. Just tried it out with Rxn-INSIGHT and now there is even more documentation and insight in reactions
deepwiki.com/mrodobbe/Rxn...

06.05.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Partial solar eclipse and clouds

Partial solar eclipse and clouds

Days like these are why I always have eclipse glasses in my drawers

29.03.2025 11:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0