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Omar Valsson

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Chemistry

Email: Omar.Valsson@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Twente, 2012
    Major: Computational Chemical Physics
    Dissertation: Understanding visual absorption from first principles
  • MSc, University of Iceland, 2008
    Major: Physics
  • BS, University of Iceland, 2006
    Major: Physics

Professional Positions

    Professional

  • Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2022 - Present).
  • Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research,. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research,. (2017 - 2022).
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich and USI Lugano. ETH Zurich and USI Lugano. (2012 - 2017).

Development Activities

  • Faculty Fellowship (Faculty Fellowship), UNT Washington DC Fellows Program, University of North Texas. United States of America. (October 2023 - April 2024).
  • Workshop, NSF Chemistry Early Career Investigator Workshop, National Science Foundation, Division of Chemistry. Alexandria,VA,United States of America. (May 2023).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CHEM 3520 - Physical Chemistry II, 6 courses.
  • CHEM 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience, 1 course.
  • CHEM 4660 - Introduction to Computational Chemistry, 3 courses.
  • CHEM 4900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • CHEM 4930 - Selected Topics in Chemistry, 1 course.
  • CHEM 5210 - Advanced Physical Chemistry, 1 course.
  • CHEM 5610 - Selected Topics in Physical Chemistry, 1 course.
  • CHEM 5660 - Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, 3 courses.
  • CHEM 6010 - Seminar for Doctoral Candidates, 1 course.
  • CHEM 6940 - Individual Research, 9 courses.
  • CHEM 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 6 courses.

Directed Student Learning

  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (October 1, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (July 22, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (May 6, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (January 8, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (September 2024).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (September 2024).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (February 1, 2024).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (January 17, 2024).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (January 1, 2024).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (December 1, 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (August 21, 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (April 1, 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (April 1, 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (April 1, 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (December 22, 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (May 13, 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Chemistry. (January 16, 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Chemistry. (September 1, 2022 - December 16, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (January 27, 2023 - December 3, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (September 19, 2023 - December 1, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (June 1, 2025 - October 21, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (October 1, 2023 - October 1, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (February 2024 - August 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (August 1, 2023 - July 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (August 2024 - March 20, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (October 11, 2024 - September 16, 2024).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Chemistry. (July 30, 2024 - April 11, 2024).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (August 1, 2023 - October 18, 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Physics. (March 28, 2022 - May 30, 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (September 15, 2022 - December 14, 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (September 23, 2022 - October 20, 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (May 9, 2022 - June 29, 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (February 10, 2022 - March 28, 2022).

Awards and Honors

  • PCCP 2025 Emerging Investigator, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. (June 2025).
  • Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Award 2023, Department of Energy Office of Science. (August 1, 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • Bhusal, S., Valsson, O. (2025). Characterizing the conformational ensemble of PROTAC degraders in solutions via atomistic simulations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27 (45) 24211-24224. doi.org/10.1039/d5cp02530c
  • Chen, S., Petersen, N., Valsson, O., Girard, M., Wang, H.I. (2025). Understanding and Controlling the Colloidal Stability of CdSe Nanoplatelets by Solvation Force Engineering. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147 (39) 35347-35354. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c08392
  • Tribello, G.A., Bonomi, M., Bussi, G., Camilloni, C., Armstrong, B.I., Arsiccio, A., Aureli, S., Ballabio, F., Bernetti, M., Bonati, L., Brookes, S.G., Brotzakis, Z.F., Capelli, R., Ceriotti, M., Chan, K.T., Cossio, P., Dasetty, S., Donadio, D., Ensing, B., Ferguson, A.L., Fraux, G., Gale, J.D., Gervasio, F.L., Giorgino, T., Herringer, N.S., Hocky, G.M., Hoff, S.E., Invernizzi, M., Languin-Cattoën, O., Leone, V., Limongelli, V., Lopez-Acevedo, O., Marinelli, F., Febrer Martinez, P., Masetti, M., Mehdi, S., Michaelides, A., Murtada, M.H., Parrinello, M., Piaggi, P.M., Pietropaolo, A., Pietrucci, F., Pipolo, S., Pritchard, C., Raiteri, P., Raniolo, S., Rapetti, D., Rizzi, V., Rydzewski, J., Salvalaglio, M., Schran, C., Seal, A., Shayesteh Zadeh, A., Silva, T.F., Spiwok, V., Stirnemann, G., Sucerquia, D., Tiwary, P., Valsson, O., Vendruscolo, M., Voth, G.A., White, A.D., Wu, J. (2025). PLUMED Tutorials: A collaborative, community-driven learning ecosystem. Journal of Chemical Physics. 162 (9) 092501. doi.org/10.1063/5.0251501
  • Ghiringhelli, L., ..... (see full author list in publication), Valsson, O., Scheffler, M. (2023). Shared metadata for data-centric materials science. Scientific Data. 10 626. doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02501-8
  • Rydzewski, J., Chen, M., Valsson, O. (2023). Manifold Learning in Atomistic Simulations: A Conceptual Review. Machine Learning: Science and Technology. 4 031001. doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ace81a
  • Valsson, O. (2023). Molecular Simulation Strategies for Understanding the Degradation Mechanisms of Acrylic Polymers. Macromolecules. 56 3272-3285. doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02442
  • Pampel, B., Holbach, S., Hartung , L., Valsson, O. (2023). Sampling Rare Event Energy Landscapes via Birth-Death Augmented Dynamics. Physical Review E. 107 024141. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.107.024141
  • Henin, J., Lelievre, T., Shirts, M.R., Valsson, O., Delemotte, L. (2022). Enhanced Sampling Methods for Molecular Dynamics Simulations [Article v1.0]. Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science. 4 1583. doi.org/10.33011/livecoms.4.1.1583
  • Petersen, N., Girard, M., Riedinger, A., Valsson, O. (2022). The Crucial Role of Solvation Forces in the Steric Stabilization of Nanoplatelets. Nano Letters. 22, (24) 9847–9853. doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02848
  • Rydzewski, J., Chen, M., Ghosh, T., Valsson, O. (2022). Reweighted Manifold Learning of Collective Variables from Enhanced Sampling Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18 7179–7192. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00873
  • Pampel, B., Valsson, O. (2022). Improving the Efficiency of Variationally Enhanced Sampling with Wavelet-Based Bias Potentials. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18 4127-4141. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00197
  • Iscen, A., Forero-Martinez, N.C., Valsson, O., Kremer, K. (2021). Acrylic Paints: An Atomistic View of Polymer Structure and Effects of Environmental Pollutants2.9. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125 (38) 10854-10865. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05188
  • Rydzewski, J., Valsson, O. (2021). Multiscale Reweighted Stochastic Embedding: Deep Learning of Collective Variables for Enhanced Sampling. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 125 (28) 6286-6302. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c02869

    • Software Tutorial

  • Valsson, O. (2022). PLUMED Masterclass 22.11: Variationally enhanced sampling with PLUMED. https://www.plumed.org/doc-master/user-doc/html/masterclass-22-11.html

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Chemistry Seminar at Western Washington University, From Stability to Dissociation: Elucidating Dissociation Kinetics of Protein-Protein Complexes via Atomistic Simulations, Department of Chemistry, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States of America. (2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Conference on Frontiers in Atomistic Simulations: from Physics to Chemistry and Biology, From Stability to Dissociation: Elucidating Unbinding Kinetics of Protein-Protein Complexes via Atomistic Simulations, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, United States of America. (2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Physical Chemistry Seminar at University of Oregon, From Stability to Dissociation: Elucidating Dissociation Kinetics of Protein-Protein Complexes via Atomistic Simulations, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States of America. (2025).
  • Bhusal, S. (Author), Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting 2025, Collective Variables for Targeted Protein Degradation: From PROTAC Conformational Ensemble in Solution to the Ternary Complex, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP), San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting 2025, From Stability to Dissociation: Elucidating Dissociation Kinetics of Protein-Protein Complexes via Atomistic Simulations, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Physical Chemistry (PHYS), San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Mesilla Chemistry Workshop 2025: Machine Learning in Molecular and Multiscale Dynamics, Unraveling Protein-Protein Dissociation Kinetics via Atomistic Simulations and Machine Learning Methods, Mesilla Chemistry Meeting, New Mexico State University, Mesilla, NM, United States of America. (2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2025 (CSE25), From Stability to Dissociation: Elucidating Dissociation Kinetics of Protein-Protein Complexes via Atomistic Simulations, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Fort Worth, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, From Stability to Dissociation: Elucidating Dissociation Kinetics of Protein-Protein Complexes via Atomistic Simulations, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Physical Chemistry Seminar at Purdue University, From Stability to Dissociation: Elucidating Dissociation Kinetics of Protein-Protein Complexes via Atomistic Simulations, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America. (2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Workshop on phase space sampling using molecular simulation: Celebrating the 40th year of the Nosé dynamics (NOSE 40), Unraveling Protein-Protein Dissociation Kinetics via Atomistic Simulations, Keio University, Japan, Kanagawa, Japan. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), CD-FMat Seminar at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan), Characterizing Local Molecular Environments in Molecular Crystals: From Chemical Intuition to Graph Neural Networks, CD-FMat (Research Center for Computational Design of Advanced Functional Materials), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan), Tsukuba, Japan. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting (ACS SWRM) 2024
, Unraveling Protein-Protein Dissociation Kinetics via Atomistic Simulations, American Chemical Society, Waco, TX, United States of America. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Biomolecular Sciences (BMOL) Seminar at Boise State University, Unraveling Protein-Protein Dissociation Kinetics via Atomistic Simulations, Biomolecular Sciences (BMOL) Graduate Program
Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States of America. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2024, Unraveling Protein-Protein Dissociation Kinetics via Atomistic Simulations, American Chemical Society, Denver, CO, United States of America. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Department of Chemistry Seminar at University of Iceland, Unraveling Protein-Protein Dissociation Kinetics via Atomistic Simulations, Department of Chemistry, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), UNT BioDiscovery Institute Seminar Series, Unraveling Protein-Protein Dissociation Kinetics via Atomistic Simulations, UNT BioDiscovery Institute, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), 6th i-CoMSE Workshop: Methods for Advanced Sampling, Metadynamics, i-CoMSE (the Institute of Computational Molecular Science Education), Online, United States of America. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), 2023 Condensed Phase and Interfacial Molecular Science (CPIMS) Principal Investigators' Research Meeting, The Molecular Building Block Sampling Approach for Polymorphic Free Energy Calculations, Department of Energy SC BES CPIMS, Rockville, MD, USA, United States of America. (2023).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Deep Modeling for Molecular Simulation 2023, Enhanced Sampling Methods for Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Chemistry in Solution and at Interfaces, University of Princeton, Princeton, United States of America. (2023).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Machine Learning and Chemistry: Are We There Yet?, Manifold Learning of Collective Variables for Enhanced Sampling Simulations, MolSSI, University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America. (2023).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), 3rd i-CoMSE Workshop: Methods for Advanced Sampling, Metadynamics, i-CoMSE (the Institute of Computational Molecular Science Education), Online, United States of America. (2023).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Rare Events: Analysis, Numerics, and Applications, Sampling Rare Event Energy Landscapes via a Birth-Death Process Augmented Langevin Dynamics, Brin Mathematics Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, United States of America. (2023).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Erice School: Exploring and Quantifying Rough Free Energy Landscapes, Sampling Rare Event Energy Landscapes via a Birth-Death Process Augmented Langevin Dynamics, Erice, Italy, Italy. (2022).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Recent Advances in Modelling Rare Events (RARE2021), Wavelet-Based Bias Potentials and Multiscale reweighted stochastic embedding, Online, India. (2021).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Bunsen-Tagung 2021 - Multi-Scale Modelling, Multiscale reweighted stochastic embedding: Deep learning of collective variables for enhanced sampling, Online, Germany. (2021).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Soft Matter Seminar, University of Amsterdam, Understanding Long Timescale Phenomena in Chemical and Soft Matter Systems with Variationally Enhanced Sampling, Online, Netherlands. (2021).

    • Lecture

  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Chem 5010 UNT - Research Presentation, Valsson Research Group @ UNT: Unraveling Protein-Protein Dissociation Kinetics via Atomistic Simulations, United States of America. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Chem 5010 UNT - Research Presentation, Atomistic Simulations: Understanding Long Timescale Phenomena in Chemical and Soft Matter Systems with Novel Simulations Techniques, United States of America. (2023).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Chem 3010 UNT - Research Presentation, Biomolecular Simulations Understanding Long Timescale Phenomena in Chemical and Soft Matter Systems with Novel Simulations Techniques, United States of America. (2022).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Chem 5010 UNT - Research Presentation, Biomolecular Simulations Understanding Long Timescale Phenomena in Chemical and Soft Matter Systems with Novel Simulations Techniques, United States of America. (2022).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), PLUMED Masterclass: Variationally Enhanced Sampling (VES) Module, Variationally Enhanced Sampling, Online, United States of America. (2022).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Alam, K. (Author & Presenter), Si, P. (Author), Bhusal, S. (Author), Valsson, O. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2025, Classifying Molecular Crystal Polymorphs Using SOAP-PCA, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP), Washington, DC, United States of America. (2025).
  • Silva, O. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2025, Unveiling Molecular Dynamics Of 14-3-3/PMA2 Protein Complexes & Stabilizing Molecules, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Physical Chemistry (PHYS), Washington, DC, United States of America. (2025).
  • Shrestha, D. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2025, Unraveling the Dissociation Kinetics of Barnase-Barstar Complex in Full Atomistic Detail, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Physical Chemistry (PHYS), Washington, DC, United States of America. (2025).
  • Senanayaka, A. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2025, Unraveling the Effect of Force Fields on the Dissociation Kinetics of MDM2-p53 Complex via Infrequent Metadynamics Simulations, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP), Washington, DC, United States of America. (2025).
  • Bhusal, S. (Author & Presenter), Thompson, A. (Author), Walder, D. (Author), Alswafta, L. (Author), Valsson, O. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2025, Impact of Different Binding Orientations of Linker on PROTAC Conformations via Atomistic Simulation, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Physical Chemistry (PHYS), Washington, DC, United States of America. (2025).
  • Nelson, K. (Author), Si, P. (Author), Bhusal, S. (Author), Alam, K. (Author), Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting 2025, Graph Neural Network Model for Classifying Conformational Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP), San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2025).
  • Bhusal , S. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Characterizing The Conformational Ensemble Of PROTAC Degraders In Solutions, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Alam, K. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Classifying molecular crystal polymorphs using SOAP-PCA, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Pathak, J. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Effect of Protein Model and Salt Concentration on Unbinding Kinetics of the Protein-Peptide (SH3-SOS) System, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Estridge , L. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Understanding Molecular Crystal Polymorphism of p -Aminobenzoic Acid (PABA) via Machine Learning Potentials (MLPs), Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Silva, O. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Unveiling Molecular Dynamics Of 14-3-3/PMA2 Protein Complexes & Stabilizing Molecules, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Senanayaka, A. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Unbinding Kinetics of MDM2-p53 from Atomistic Simulations, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Shrestha, D. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Unraveling the Dissociation Kinetics of Barnase-Barstar in Full Atomistic Detail, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Silva, O. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), SACNAS 2024 NDiSTEM Conference, Unveiling Molecular Dynamics Of 14-3-3/PMA2 Protein Complexes & Stabilizing Molecules, SACNAS, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America. (2024).
  • Omary, M.A. (Author & Presenter), Adeyemi, B. (Author), Rabah, N. (Author), Re Calderon, G. (Author), MirzaNasiri, N. (Author), Farvid, S. (Author), Ecker, M.J. (Author), Skellam, E.J. (Author), Valsson, O. (Author), Choi, T. (Author), Rawashdeh-Omary, M. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting/Fall 2024, Genuine metallointercalation of metal centers/coordination spheres of bright/fast phosphors into DNA and micellar biocompatible polymer nanoparticles, American Chemical Society, Denver, Colorado, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Bhusal, S. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2024, Characterizing the conformational ensemble of PROTAC degraders in solution, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Physical Chemistry (PHYS), Denver, CO, United States of America. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Physical Society March Meeting 2024, Manifold Learning of Collective Variables for Enhanced Sampling Simulations, American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America. (2024).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), The 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, New Developments of Variationally Enhanced Sampling, Baltimore, USA, United States of America. (2022).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2021, Kinetics of hydrocarbon disassociation via biased reactive molecular dynamics simulations, Online, United States of America. (2021).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2021, New Developments of Variationally Enhanced Sampling, Online, United States of America. (2021).
  • Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2021, Multiscale reweighted stochastic embedding: Deep learning of collective variables for enhanced sampling, Online, United States of America. (2021).

    • Poster

  • Si, P. (Author & Presenter), Valsson, O. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2025, Molecular Dynamic Simulation of ROY Polymorphic Crystals, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP), Washington, DC, United States of America. (2025).
  • Si, P. (Author & Presenter), Nelson, K. (Author), Valsson, O. (Author), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Assessment of GAFF-Based Force Fields for ROY Polymorphic Crystals, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Pathak, J. (Author & Presenter), Senanayaka, A. (Author), Valsson, O. (Author), American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2024, Kinetics of unbinding of disordered peptides from their protein partners: A force field benchmark study, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Physical Chemistry (PHYS), Denver, CO, United States of America. (2024).

Media Contributions

    Newspaper

  • "Chemistry professor receives Early Career Award and grant money for research in molecular crystals," North Texas Daily. (September 11, 2023).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Valsson, O. (Principal), "The Molecular Building Block Sampling Approach for Polymorphic Free Energy Calculations," sponsored by DOE Early Career, Federal, $875000 Funded. (2023 - 2028).
  • Esmailie, F. (Principal), Valsson, O. (Principal), "A Multiscale Multiphysics In-Silico Model of Photobiomodulation therapy for hearing preservation," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Valsson, O. (Principal), "Subaward from the NSF CAREER Grant of Oliverio Andrussi at Boise State University," sponsored by NSF - Subaward from Boise State, Federal, $42166 Funded. (2023 - 2023).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Working Group for Workload and Faculty Annual Review Reform, Department of Chemistry. (February 1, 2025 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Department of Chemistry. (October 1, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Digital Public Relations Committee, Department of Chemistry. (April 1, 2022 - Present).
  • Special Institutional Assignment, Departmental Photographer, Department of Chemistry. (January 16, 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Computational Biochemistry Assistant Professor Search Committee, Department of Biological Sciences. (October 1, 2024 - May 2025).
  • Committee Member, Chemical Biology Assistant Professor Search Committee, Department of Chemistry. (October 1, 2023 - April 1, 2024).
  • Committee Chair, Administrator Evaluation Committee, Department of Chemistry. (November 17, 2022 - May 1, 2023).
  • Committee Member, Computational Chemistry Assistant Professor Search Committee, Department of Chemistry. (September 16, 2022 - February 15, 2023).

Public Service

  • Member, The PLUMED consortium. (2019 - Present).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, ACS Sensors. (2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biophysical Journal. (2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chemical Reviews. (2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, eLife. (2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, JACS Au. (2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Physical Review Letters. (2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Small (Journal). (2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Current Opinion in Structural Biology. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Digital Discovery. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Macromolecular Rapid Communications. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nano Letters. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Computational Science. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Scientific Reports. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. (2023 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of the American Chemical Society. (2023 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Machine Learning: Science and Technology. (2023 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chemical Science. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Communications. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, RSC Advances. (2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, The Journal of Chemical Physics. (2022 - Present).
  • Other (Symposium Lead Co-Organizer), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2025. Atlanta, GA. (September 1, 2025 - March 26, 2026).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. (December 2025 - January 21, 2026).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (December 2025 - January 6, 2026).
  • Other (Symposium Co-Organizer), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2025. Washington, DC. (January 1, 2025 - August 21, 2025).
  • Other (Symposium Lead Co-Organizer), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2025. Washington, DC. (October 1, 2024 - August 21, 2025).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, DOE SC BES CPIMS. (June 2025 - June 2025).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, DOE SC BES CPIMS. (June 2025 - June 2025).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, DOE SC BES CPIMS. (June 2025 - June 2025).
  • Other (Symposium Co-Organizer), American Chemical Society Spring Meeting 2025. San Diego, CA. (September 1, 2024 - March 27, 2025).
  • Other (Symposium Co-Organizer), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2024. Denver, CO. (January 1, 2024 - August 22, 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, DOE SC BES CPIMS. (May 2024 - May 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, DOE SC BES CPIMS. (May 2024 - May 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, DOE SC BES CPIMS. (May 2024 - May 2024).
  • Other (Focus Session Organizer), APS March Meeting 2024. Minneapolis, (March 1, 2023 - March 8, 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. (December 2023 - February 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NSF DMR - Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT). (September 2023 - September 2023).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, DOE SC BES CPIMS. (April 2023 - April 2023).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, DOE SC BES CPIMS. (March 2023 - March 2023).
  • Other (Symposium co-organizer), 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling. Baltimore, (January 1, 2022 - October 7, 2022).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NSF DMR - Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT). (May 2022 - May 2022).