About .

I am a chemist by training, interested in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and computer technology. I have enjoyed chemistry since my teenage and keep enjoying it today.

Throughout my career, it was the scientific curiosity that led me into areas of organic chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, medicinal chemistry, drug design, and computational chemistry.

Over the years, I became intrigued by molecular structures and physicochemical properties of molecules. After mastering basics of computational chemistry, I kept coming back to practical approaches to molecular models and molecular visualization. At one time, when immersed in a peculiar structural chemistry puzzle, I run across the concept of Natural Bond Orbitals (NBO). I found it extremely useful and I am learning and using it since. I enjoy writing simple applications and scripts to make processing and understanding results of NBO explorations easier.

On the hobby side, I enjoy digital photography, color science, web design, and coding.

Arsenal of my scripting and programming tools includes html, css, jQuery, PHP, Java, Python, and Matlab.

Marcel Patek