ABOUT
OUR MISSION
We believe many of the challenges created by modern chemistry can ultimately be addressed by increasing humanity's ability to understand, discover, and design matter itself.
01 / WHY AFH EXISTS
Chemical contamination, persistent materials, inefficient chemical processes, and other consequences of modern chemistry are not only problems of disposal or regulation. They can also reflect decisions embedded in the molecules and reactions themselves.
AFH works upstream: toward the scientific capabilities needed to discover better molecular systems in the first place.
02 / CURRENT THESIS
Our mission is broader than any single technology. Today, however, we believe one of the highest-leverage interventions is to make molecular simulation dramatically more scalable, interoperable, and accessible.
That capability can expand what scientists can explore directly and create the scientific environment increasingly capable AI systems need to perform computational experiments.
WHY A NONPROFIT
We believe the scale of today’s chemical challenges is too great for any one organization to solve. We therefore develop tools and scientific capabilities that enable researchers everywhere to search more broadly for safer and more sustainable chemistry.
Foundational scientific infrastructure can create value across institutions, disciplines, and generations of researchers. Realizing that value requires open access, long-term maintenance, and stable stewardship—priorities that do not always align with commercial incentives.
Atoms for Humanity is structured as a nonprofit so that the infrastructure we build can remain broadly accessible and deliver the greatest possible benefit to the global research community.
OPEN SCIENCE
We release software, data, workflows, protocols, and scientific results openly whenever practicable so others can use, extend, reproduce, and improve them.
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
Atoms for Humanity's current infrastructure and research program is supported by a $2.2 million grant from Astera Institute.
Organization & Governance