Lenna Peterson is a Python GUI developer at Schrödinger. She joined the company in 2017 after a BA in Biology from Mount Holyoke College and a PhD in Computational Structural Biology from Purdue University. She started programming in high school, became a contributor to the Biopython open source project (including Google Summer of Code), and continued writing scientific Python tools in graduate school. She is passionate about building computational tools to help scientists solve tough problems.