📍 Boston, MA
Renjie Zhu
'Detective' in the scientific world
Hi, I am Renjie Zhu (朱 仁杰), a PhD student in Chemistry at Boston University. I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from East China Normal University in 2025, where I spent four unforgettable and rewarding years.
My given name shares the same Chinese characters as Di Renjie, a legendary detective figure. Therefore, I want to become a “detective” in the scientific world, using computational approaches to uncover the hidden mechanisms underlying chemical and biological systems.
Trivia: I love Pokémon, fishing, and photography.
Research Experience
Dec 2025 – Present
Research Practice
Qiang Cui Group · Boston University, Boston, MA
Computational biophysics — protein dynamics, MD simulations, and allosteric analysis.
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
Lab Rotation
Department of Chemistry · Boston University, Boston, MA
QM/MM calculations, MD Simulation.
Jul 2024 – Aug 2024
Summer Research Intern
Jing Huang Group · Westlake University, Hangzhou
Protein pocket alignment research.
Sep 2021 – Aug 2025
Research Practice
Fei Xia Group · NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, East China Normal University
Coarse-Grained Force Fields, Coarse-Grained Modelling and Simulation.
Education
Sep 2025 – Present
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Boston University · Boston, MA
Sep 2021 – Jul 2025
B.S. in Chemistry
East China Normal University · Shanghai, China
Recent Publications
J. Phys. Chem. B · 2026
@article{10.1021/acs.jpcb.6c05069,
title = {A Coarse-Grained Model for Small Organic Molecules with Optimized Lennard-Jones Parameters},
author = {Zhu, R. and Zhu, T. and Wu, R. and Xia, F.},
journal = {The Journal of Physical Chemistry B},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcb.6c05069}
}
J. Chem. Theory Comput. · 2026 · 22(12), 6180–6195
@article{10.1021/acs.jctc.6c00082,
title = {Measuring Differences in Protein Allosteric Graphs Constructed via Molecular Dynamics Simulations},
author = {Shi, J. and Wan, Z. and Zhu, R. and Cui, Q.},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation},
volume = {22},
number = {12},
pages = {6180--6195},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jctc.6c00082}
}
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