Dave Winkler
Senior Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO Manufacturing
Australia
Biography
Prof. Dave Winkler, is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Manufacturing in Melbourne, Australia and hold Adjunct Professorial positions at several Australian and overseas universities. He has held positions of President of the Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry, Project Director in Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry in the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies, and Chairman of the Board of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He is an author on over 200 scientific papers and book chapters and an inventor on 20 patents. He sits on the Editorial Board of ChemMedChem, BMC Biosciences and Molecular Informatics.
Research Interest
Molecular design, biologically active molecules, biomaterials and regenerative medicine, complex systems, biological properties of nanomaterials, machine learning, computational chemistry, structure-property relationships, peptides and peptide mimetics, self-assembly and self-organization, molecular pharmacology, radioastronomy