Previous editions

SIMBIOCHEM I

The 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Simulations in Biology and Chemistry

EurIPS 2025 · December 6, 2025 ITU, Aud. 0, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 København, Denmark

Original 1st-edition site — link coming soon

>100

Attendees

29

Accepted posters

8

Spotlight talks

5

Nature-invited extended versions

The inaugural edition brought the machine-learning, computational-chemistry and biophysics communities together in Copenhagen for a full day of talks, spotlights and two poster sessions — with community benchmarks, reproducibility and physically-grounded methods at its core.

Awards

Prize winners

Best Paper Award (NVIDIA)

DGX Spark

Sparse Data Diffusion for Scientific Simulations in Biology and Physics

Phil Ostheimer, Mayank Nagda, Andriy Balinskyy, Jean Radig, Carl Herrmann, Stephan Mandt, Marius Kloft, Sophie Fellenz

DCAI Best Paper Award

2000 GPU hours on GEFION B300

Shoot from the HIP: Hessian Interatomic Potentials without derivatives

Andreas Burger, Luca Thiede, Nikolaj Rønne, Nandita Vijaykumar, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Nature spotlights

Invited for extended versions

01

Improving protein–ligand complex generation with force field guidance

Helen Lai, Tingyu Wang, Hassan Sirelkhatim, S. Joe Eaton, Howard Huang, Brad Rees, Ola Engkvist, Jon Paul Janet, Xiaoyun Wang, Alessandro Tibo

02

DoRIAT: A Bayesian Framework for Interpreting and Annotating TCR-pHLA Docking Runs

Christos Maniatis, Zahra Ouaray, Chengkai Xiao, Thomas P.E. Dixon, Charlie Naylor, James R. Snowden, Michelle Teng, Jacob Hurst

03

Learning from the Electronic Structure of Molecules Across the Periodic Table

Manasa Kaniselvan, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Meng Gao, Juno Nam, Daniel S. Levine

04

Shoot from the HIP: Hessian Interatomic Potentials without derivatives

Andreas Burger, Luca Thiede, Nikolaj Rønne, Nandita Vijaykumar, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

05

MDAgent: A Modular Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous Protein–Ligand Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Salomé Guilbert, Cassandra Masschelein, Jeremy Goumaz, Bohdan Naida, Philippe Schwaller

1st-edition sponsors

NVIDIANovo NordiskIQCCradle.bioDCAI