Aäron van den OordResearch Scientist · Google DeepMindResearcher↗Both at Google DeepMind
Stig Petersen
Petersen contributed to both major generations of AlphaFold, the system that predicts a protein's three-dimensional structure from its amino-acid sequence. The work turned a decades-old scientific challenge into a practical resource used by researchers across biology and medicine.
Career & education
Current role
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations127,212As of Nov 1, '26
citations+2,959Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
With John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and others ·Presented AlphaFold 2, predicting proteins' three-dimensional shapes from their sequences.
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
With Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Andrei A. Rusu, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare, Alex Graves and others ·Presented DQN, learning to play 49 Atari games from screen images and game scores.
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