Rhiju Das (born 1978 in Houston, Texas[citation needed]) is a computational biochemist and a professor of biochemistry and physics at Stanford University.
Research in his lab seeks a predictive understanding of how RNA molecules and their complexes form molecular machines fundamental to life.
Das was a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow working on protein structure prediction with David Baker at the University of Washington.
[10] Das also is known for his work on demonstrating the application of cryo-electron microscopy to accelerate the structure determination of RNA.
[11] He helped launch and served as an assessor for the first RNA category in the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction in 2022.