Ignacia Echeverria

Ignacia Echeverria is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco working in molecular biophysics and computational structural biology. Her research focuses on developing integrative, computational, and theoretical models to describe the structure, dynamics, and function of proteins, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates, with the goal of understanding their biological roles and evolutionary principles. Her work emphasizes integrative structure determination approaches that combine diverse experimental data with computational modeling to study large protein assemblies and complex molecular systems. She applies methods from molecular biophysics, statistical mechanics, stochastic modeling, molecular modeling, and scientific computing to investigate how molecular interactions give rise to biological function. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Prior to joining UCSF as faculty, she conducted postdoctoral research at UCSF in the Andrej Šali laboratory and at the University of Maryland in the Garyk Papoian laboratory.