In her computer lab, the organic chemist’s research group uses computational models to investigate the chemical properties and reactivity of molecules and elucidate the connections between molecular properties and structural features. The chemical insights they uncover are leveraged to implement machine-learning and deep-learning models for data-driven molecular design and discovery. Bridging the gap between the organic chemistry and digital worlds, the Poranne group develops user-friendly methods that help connect these abstract properties to real-world synthetic strategies.

Before joining the Technion faculty in 2021, Renana was a senior scientist at the Laboratorium für Organische Chemie at the ETH Zürich, where she had previously served as a postdoctoral fellow. She completed her Ph.D. in the Technion’s Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, where she holds her present appointment. She is a member of the Technion’s Resnick Sustainability Center for Catalysis, a Branco Weiss Fellow, a Horev Fellow, an Alon Scholarship recipient, and a Krill Prize laureate.

Renana and her partner, Roi, are parents to two boys both born during her Ph.D., and she is a classically trained soprano coloratura.