Dr. Dilshana Shanavas Rasheeda

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department Computational Biology
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany

Building: Building 4.1
Room: Room 237

Email: dilshana.shanavas-rasheeda@ufz.de

Dilshana S. R.

Research interests

  • Identify and evaluate data sources and in-silico tools for obtaining physicochemical properties
  • Develop a systematic workflow using these tools to allow small and large scale generation of data sets for training Graph Neural Networks
  • Integration of the gained experience into existing in-house computational approaches to improve their predictive power

Curriculum vitae

  • 2013 - 2018 Integrated MSc in Chemistry NISER, Bhubaneshwar, India
    Master’s thesis: ‘Studying the atomic level mechanism of the hydrolysis of propylene oxide using computational tools’
  • 2019 - 2022 PhD in Chemistry, Georg-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
    Thesis title: ‘Vibrational Frequencies of Molecular Systems using High Dimensional Neural
    Network Potentials’
  • 2023 - Current Scientist-Post Doc Department of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research

Ongoing project

  • Analysis and assessment of Toxcast data for predictive modelling purposes in toxicology.