Yoel Rodríguez

Dr. Yoel Rodríguez is a theoretical biophysicist and Professor of Physics and Chemistry in CUNY’s Hostos Community College. He is the Chair of the Natural Sciences Department, and Coordinator of the Joint Dual Engineering Degree Program with The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering of CUNY. He received his B.S. degree in Physical Chemistry from Havana University, and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Biophysics at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He completed his postdoctoral training at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY in Computational Biophysics. He has published several peer-reviewed research articles and presented at numerous conferences. His research is directed toward applying Computational Theoretical Biophysics approaches to a better understanding of fundamental molecular mechanisms in biological processes with implications in cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and cardiovascular diseases. He has received multiple grants from different agencies, including NSF and NIH and the prestigious Fulbright Scholar award. Dr. Rodríguez is also captivated by STEM pedagogical research and mentoring of undergraduate students. His mentees have earned multiple awards at STEM conferences, and several have continued to earn graduate degrees.