Following a degree in Chemistry from NUI Galway, Noel O’Boyle undertook a PhD with Prof. Han Vos (Dublin City University) on ruthenium polypyridyl complexes. Subsequent postdoctoral positions involved protein reaction similiarity (University of Cambridge), protein-ligand docking (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre), and conformation generation (University College Cork). Moving into industry, at NextMove Software he developed products that applied cheminformatics to peptides and other biologics, as well as to problems in medicinal chemistry. From 2019-2023, he was part of the Computational Chemistry team at Nxera Pharma to find new therapeutics for GPCRs. From January 2024-January 2025, he served as Associate Director at Nxera Pharma. In February 2025, he joined EMBL-EBI as Team Leader for Chemical Biology Resources, a group that is responsible for curating, maintaining, and developing critical open data sources that provide high-quality chemical data.
Throughout his career, he has maintained an interest in Open Source software in chemistry, and has contributed to GaussSum, cclib, and Open Babel among others.
Chemical Structure Association Trust 