About Rowan

Rowan is building modern computational tools to accelerate chemical innovation. We believe there is unmet demand for well-engineered chemistry software and that better tools are one of the most effective ways to drive scientific progress. We're also optimistic about the ability of small, for-profit companies to complement existing scientific institutions.

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Team

Corin Wagen

Founder, CEO

Before Rowan, Corin was a graduate student in the Jacobsen Lab at Harvard (PhD 2023) and studied chemistry at MIT (BS 2019). Corin started Rowan to build the tools he wanted during his time in academia.

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Ari Wagen

Founder, COO

Ari is interested in studying and building institutions that drive progress. Previously, Ari attended Northeastern (BS 2023).

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Eli Mann

Founder, Director of Machine Learning

Before joining Rowan, Eli designed equivariant transporter networks at Northeastern and studied CS at SMU (BS 2023).

Jonathon Vandezande

Director of Computational Chemistry

Jonathon is a computational chemistry veteran, receiving his PhD under Henry F. Schaefer III (UGA) and a post-doc in the Neese Group (MPI-KoFo) working on catalysts for CO₂ reduction and water splitting. He ran a polymer chemistry lab for a few years, and comes to Rowan from Schrödinger, where he supported QM reactivity tools.

Spencer Schneider

Software Engineer

Before joining Rowan, Spencer was a software engineer at Meta and studied at Caltech (BS 2022).