Dr. Jörg-Rüdiger Hill is a senior researcher at Materials Design. He received his PhD in chemistry from Humboldt University in Berlin working in the group of Joachim Sauer. He joined Biosym Technologies in San Diego where he was doing contract research in materials science and headed the development of a data management system for combinatorial materials science. In 2004 he co-founded Scienomics where he served as R&D Director and Managing Director for Scienomics GmbH and was in charge of the design and the implementation of the Materials and Processes Simulations (MAPS) platform. In 2019 he joined Materials Design, where he is doing contract research and software development.