Radost Milena Herboth
About me
I was born in 1996 in Berlin, Germany. In 2015, I began my Bachelor studies in Chemistry at the University of Rostock, which I concluded in 2018 with a thesis on simulations of the aggregation of phenyl-substituted alcohols in the group of Prof. Dr. Ralf Ludwig. I continued to pursue a master's degreee in Physical Chemistry at Uppsala University, where I graduated in 2020 with a thesis on the surface propensity of amino acids in atmospheric aerosols under the supervision of Malin Wohlert and Carl Caleman. After working in the same group as a research assistant for 6 months, I began my PhD at Stockholm University in 2021.
Teaching
Teaching assistant in the course Physical Chemistry (15 hp)
Research
My research focuses on polymorphism in active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), a phenomenon that leads to the same molecule crystallizing in several structures which show different physical and chemical properties, among others different efficiencies as drugs. It is part of a project funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation which aims to direct the crystallization of APIs through the choice of the solvent. A promising candidate for non-volatile and highly tunable solvents are ionic liquids, due to their unique properties as molten salts. My part in the project is to complement the experimental work by means of simulations and in-silico investigation. In my research, I use a variety of computational modeling techniques, from classical molecular dynamics to advanced sampling techniques like Metadynamics and even more novel methods like OPES (On-the-fly Probability Enhanced Sampling).