About Rowan

Applied research

Rowan is an applied research company. We think that applied-research-focused scientific startups can complement academic institutions' focus on basic research and corporate R&D's focus on applications. Read more about our applied research focus.

Tool building

Rowan is a tool-building company. We think that improved scientific tools are a key driver of scientific progress and that there is unmet demand for well-engineered chemistry software. Read Freeman J. Dyson about the importance of tools in science.

Democratizing computation

Rowan is working to democratize computation. We think that putting simulation into the hands of every scientist will enable innovation across the chemical sciences. Read more about our goal of democratizing computation.

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Team

Corin WagenCo-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 WagenCo-founder & COO

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

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Eli MannCo-founder & Director of Machine Learning

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

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Jonathon VandezandeDirector 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 SchneiderDirector of Engineering

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

Vedant NilabhMachine Learning Intern

Vedant is currently a master's student at Northeastern University, where he is working on parameter space symmetries in transformers. He completed his bachelor's at SMU (BA CS, BS DS, and BBA Finance 2024).

Ishaan GantiComputational Chemistry Intern

Ishaan is an undergraduate at Brown studying applied math, computer science, and physics. He is a part of the Cao group at MIT, where he studies cavity polaritons.