Dr. Kulik received her Ph.D. in 2009 in materials science and engineering at MIT, where she developed and applied first-principles, electronic structure methods for the treatment of transition metal centers in metalloenzymes. In 2010-2013, Dr. Kulik then extended her research into large-scale graphical-processing-unit-accelerated computations of protein structure and enzyme function at Stanford Universty in the chemistry ­­department as well as as a research fellow at Berkeley in the quantitative biosciences (QB3) division. For her work on large-scale quantum mechanical simulation of enzymes, Dr. Kulik was awarded a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in 2012. Dr. Kulik joined the faculty in chemical engineering at MIT in Fall 2013.