Professor Andrew D. White from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester is the 2020 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. He is cited “for excellence in scholarly research in computational molecular science and engineering on the topics of multiscale modeling, molecular simulation methods and modeling of peptides.” Andrew joined the faculty at Rochester in 2015. Before that he worked with Professor Greg Voth at University of Chicago as a Post-doctoral fellow in the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics from 2013-2014. Andrew received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Washington in 2013. Andrew delivered a presentation describing his research during the CoMSEF Plenary Session at the 2020 AIChE Annual Meeting. The CoMSEF Young Investigator Award is given annually to a CoMSEF member who is within 7 years of completion of their highest degree.