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Dr. Firdaus Samsudin received his B.Sc. in Biotechnology from Imperial College London before completing a D.Phil. in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. His first postdoctoral work was conducted at the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Bioinformatics Institute (BII), A*STAR, Singapore, where he leads a research focusing on understanding the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein using molecular modelling and simulation.  His research works focus on protein and small molecule structural analysis, molecular dynamics simulation, homology modelling, docking, and free energy calculation, with a strong track record of collaboration with biophysicists and structural biologists.