• B.S. Physics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2016
• B.S. Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2016

     Pi stacking in nucleic acids

``Noncovalent Helicene Structure Between Nucleic Acids and Cyanuric Acid,'' A. Alenaizan, K. Fauche, R. Krishnamurthy, and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Eur. J. 27, 4043 (2021) (doi: 10.1002/chem.202004390)

``The Proto-Nucleic Acid Builder: A Software Tool for Constructing Nucleic Acid Analogs,'' A. Alenaizan, J. L. Barnett, N. V. Hud, C. D. Sherrill, and A. S. Petrov, Nucleic Acids Res. 49, 79-89 (2021) (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1159)

`` PSI4 1.4: Open-Source Software for High-Throughput Quantum Chemistry,'' D. G. A. Smith, L. A. Burns, A. C. Simmonett, R. M. Parrish, M. C. Schieber, R. Galvelis, P. Kraus, H. Kruse, R. Di Remigio, A. Alenaizan, A. M. James, S. Lehtola, J. P. Misiewicz, M. Scheurer, R. A. Shaw, J. B. Schriber, Y. Xie, Z. L. Glick, D. A. Sirianni, J. S. O'Brien, J. M. Waldrop, A. Kumar, E. G. Hohenstein, B. P. Pritchard, B. R. Brooks, H. F. Schaefer, A. Yu. Sokolov, K. Patkowski, A. E. DePrince, U. Bozkaya, R. A. King, F. A. Evangelista, J. M. Turney, T. D. Crawford, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 184108 (2020) (doi: 10.1063/5.0006002)

``Python Implementation of the Restrained Electrostatic Potential Charge Model,'' A. Alenaizan, L. A. Burns, and C. D. Sherrill, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 120, e26035 (2020) (doi: 10.1002/qua.26035)

`` PSI4NUMPY: An Interactive Quantum Chemistry Programming Environment for Reference Implementations and Rapid Development,'' D. G. A. Smith, L. A. Burns, D. A. Sirianni, D. R. Nascimento, A. Kumar, A. M. James, J. B. Schriber, T. Zhang, B. Zhang, A. S. Abbott, E. J. Berquist, M. H. Lechner, L. A. Cunha, A. G. Heide, J. M. Waldrop, T. Y. Takeshita, A. Alenaizan, D. Neuhauser, R. A. King, A. C. Simmonett, J. M. Turney, H. F. Schaefer, F. A. Evangelista, A. E. DePrince, T. D. Crawford, K. Patkowski, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 14, 3504-3511 (2018) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00286)

``Assessment of Density Functional Methods for Geometry Optimization of Biomolecular Van Der Waals Complexes,'' D. A. Sirianni, A. Alenaizan, D. L. Cheney, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 14, 3004-3013 (2018) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00114)