Margarida Feijão is a fashion designer from the south of Portugal. She graduated from Parsons and Central Saint Martins. Her creative approach merges wearable art with critical social commentary, examining and redefining women's roles in society. Margarida’s creations question traditional narratives and confront themes of oppression, sexualization, and the restrictive identities historically imposed on women.
Ana Margarida
Dr. Perilla serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Delaware. He earned his Ph.D. in 2011 from Johns Hopkins University, where his research focused on applying transition state theory to significant conformational changes in proteins.
Following this, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct in silico studies of entire viruses under physiological conditions. His work emphasizes developing physical and chemical methodologies to comprehend biological processes associated with life and disease. His research encompasses a range from quantum-mechanical calculations to mesoscale simulations, utilizing the computational capabilities of petascale (and upcoming exascale) supercomputers.
Prof. Perilla’s team has also pioneered comprehensive molecular simulations of viral components, contributing to the advancement of a robust statistical analysis framework. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, appeared on 11 journal covers, and contributed to three book chapters. His research is funded by NIH grants R01AI178846, R01AI157843, and U54AI170791. Outside of academia, Dr. Perilla is an enthusiast of sports such as squash and bike touring.
Juan Perilla, Ph.D