Gregory Bowman, PhD

Gregory Bowman, PhD is the Director of Folding@home and the Louis Heyman University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in Biochemistry & Biophysics and in Bioengineering.

Greg started in the lab of Vijay Pande — Folding@home's founding director — as a Stanford graduate student, developing the Markov state model (MSM) methods that became central to how F@h aggregates short trajectories into a complete picture of protein folding. He continued as a Berry Postdoctoral Fellow in Pande's lab, then moved to UC Berkeley as a Miller Fellow.

Greg started his own lab at Washington University in St. Louis in 2014 and became director of Folding@home in 2018. In 2022 he moved his lab to the University of Pennsylvania, where he was appointed a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) University Professor.

The Bowman lab develops new ways to interpret genetic variation and combat global health threats by understanding and exploiting protein dynamics — combining biophysical experiments, machine learning, physics-based simulations, and the world's largest distributed computer. Dr. Bowman is also an advocate for visually-impaired scientists.