Zaida Ann "Zan" Luthey-Schulten is the William and Janet Lycan Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Models are verified and improved through comparison to experimental data from independent researchers.
The three-dimensional model combined ribosome data and other descriptors of Escherichia coli.
[7] She worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, from 1975 to 1980, and at the department of theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1980 to 1985.
[8] In 2018, she delivered the Francis D. Carlson Lecture in the Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University.