This document summarizes the research background and projects of Faidon Brotzakis, a computational chemistry PhD candidate at UvA. His background includes graduate studies in chemical engineering at NTUA in Athens, where his thesis involved molecular dynamics and rare event simulations of atactic polystyrene relaxation. His current research projects focus on water dynamics around folded and misfolded proteins, anisotropy decay experiments, structure and water dynamics around antifreeze proteins, self-assembly of antifreeze peptides into nanotubes, and transition path sampling to study the rare dimer association event of β-lactoglobulin globular proteins.