about

From 1996 to 2020 Michael Rock Goldsmith (Rocky) worked in Pharmaceutical R&D (Ciba-Geigy, Merck Frosst, Pharmascience, Ethypharm DDS, Novartis), in the tobacco industry in product engineering (Imperial Tobacco Inc.) in the Explosives industry (Orica Explosives), for the drug design software industry (Chemical Computing Group ULC), in agrochemical discovery (Monsanto / Bayer Crop Sciences) and over 8 years a government scientist (US-Environmental Protection Agency).

Rocky has worked as a computational discovery chemistry lead, a software application scientist, a research physical scientist, a product engineer and as both PR&D and QA analytical chemist. In these roles he has authored and co-authored over 45 manuscripts and book chapters in computational chemistry and exposure science, and has dealt with dozens of industrial clients in collaborative support and consulting in computational chemistry, ranging from pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, consumer products, flavors & fragrances.

Rocky speaks English, French and German and resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

where is he now?

After many years in the computational chemistry software industry as an application scientist in Montreal Canada, and in agrochemical discovery as a computational discovery chemistry lead in St Louis, Rocky has returned to the US-EPA in Research Triangle Park as a staff scientist. On occasion he may be consulted on an ad hoc basis in the orthogonal field of computational drug discovery, and computational biologics/protein engineering, de-risking of lead therapeutics and competitive intelligence / patent busting and development.