Chris MacDermaid is Assistant Professor of Research at Institute for Computational Molecular Science,Department of Chemistry,Temple University. His major area of teaching are Soft Matter Theory and Computation. His research focous on computational protein design, structural bioinformatics and homology modeling, large-scale simulation and modeling of biomolecular systems.

His research interests include, but are not limited to: computational protein design, structural bioinformatics, large-scale simulation and modeling of biomolecular systems, developing scientific computational tools and software and education in scientific and high performance computing.