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Education

• 1978 Abitur, Bodelschwingh Gymnasium, Herchen, Germany.
• 1983 M.A. in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Advisor: Prof. Reinhard Kamitz).
• 1985 Diplom in Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Advisor: Prof. Robert Schrader).
• 1990 Ph.D. in Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Thesis advisor: Prof. Robert Schrader).

Employment

• 1986 - 1991 Lecturer, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, Germany.
• 1991 - 1994 Postdoc. Research Associate, Department of Physics and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute (SCRI), The Florida State University, USA.
• 1994 - 1996 Postdoc. Research Associate, Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (SCSC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• 1996 - 1998 "Joshu'' (equivalent to Research Assistant Professor), Department for Theoretical Studies, Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, Japan.
• 1998 - 2011 Professor, Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, USA; tenured in 2002, promoted to full professor in 2004.
• 2011 - present Full Professor (tenured) at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, USA.
• 2011 - 2017 Adjunct Professor at Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, USA.
• 2018 - present Member, Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma.

Professional memberships:

• American Physical Society
• American Chemical Society
• Sigma Pi Sigma

Research Activities

• See separated research statement for an overview of my current research activities.
• Total publications: >240, for a complete list see the separated publication list.
• H-Index:36 (Google Scholar: 46); number of citations per year (Source: ISI Web of Knowledge):
  

  years 1990-2017: 2019: 2020: 2021: 2022: 2023:

  first-author papers             2364              73              62              51              60              56

  total number of papers     5270      185      197      170      198      132

External Research Support

• 2000-2003 National Science Foundation (CHE-9981874), Development and Application of Generalized - Ensemble Algorithms for Protein Folding, US$ 208,000, role: PI
• 2003-2007 National Institutes of Health (GM62838), Folding and Structural Transitions in Small Proteins, US$ 599,137, role: PI
• 2003-2007 National Science Foundation (CHE-0313618), Development and Application of Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms for Protein Studies, US$328,000, role: PI
• 2008-2012 National Science Foundation (CHE-0809002), Development of Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms and their Application in Protein Studies, US$420,000, role: PI
• 2009-2014 National Institutes of Health (GM62838), Folding, Mis-folding and Aggregation of Small Proteins, US$776,383, role: PI
• 2013-2017 National Science Foundation (CHE-1266256), Development of Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms and their Application in Protein Studies, US$410,000, role: PI
• 2014-2016 OCAST (HR14-129), Modeling the molecular mechanism of amyloid oligomer and fibril self assembly, US$90,000, role: PI
• 2017-2023 University of Arkansas (Sub-award from NIH GM120578, PI: Feng Wang), Efficient and Accurate Force Fields for Computer-Aided Drug Design, US$447,910, role: PI
• 2017-2023 National Institutes of Health (GM120634), Structural Transitions in Proteins and Protein Assemblies, US$1,184,183, role: PI
• 2018-2019 University of Southern Mississippi (Sub-award from NIH AG062292, PI: Vijay Rangachari), Role of Lipid-derived Oligomer Strains in AD Phenotypes, US$122,079, role: PI

Teaching Activities

• 1983 - 1989 Freie Universität Berlin
  Recitations sessions in freshmen physics, Undergraduate Lab, Electrodynamics.
• 1986 - 1991 Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
  Undergraduate courses: Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics for scientists and engineers; Introductory course in Computer Science and Computational Methods for scientists and engineers
• 1998 - 2011 Michigan Technological University
  Graduate courses: Theoretical Mechanics, Statistical Physics;
  undergraduate courses: Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Computational Physics, General Physics, Introduction into Protein Physics, Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Modeling; Supervision of numerous undergraduate student projects.
• 2011 - present University of Oklahoma
  Graduate Courses: Intermediate Physical Chemistry (Statistical Mechanics);
  undergraduate courses: Physical Chemistry 1;
  supervision of undergraduate student projects.
• Students supervised
  Yong Peng (Ph.D., MTU, 2003); Vasyl Aleksenko (M.S., MTU, 2005); Yanjie Wei (Ph.D., MTU, 2007); Liang Han (M.S., MTU, 2007); Parimal Kar (Ph.D., MTU, 2009). Haiqing Zhao (M.S., MTU, 2012); Helen W. German (M.S., OU, 2014); Erik J. Alred (Ph.D., OU, 2017); Nathan A. Bernhardt (Ph.D., OU, 2018); Wenhua Wang (Ph.D., OU, 2020); Alan J. Ray (Ph.D., OU, 2024); Miranda S. Sheridan (Ph.D., OU, 2024); Andrew D. Chesney (current); Malinda B. Premathilaka (current).

Service:

• Referee and panel duty for funding agencies
  National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation; Petroleum Research Fund; Wellcome Trust; Israel-USA Binational Science Foundation,; Volkswagenstiftung; Landesstiftung Baden-Würrtemberg; PRACE; John von Neumann Instititute for Computing
• Referee for journals
  Bioinformatics; Biophysical Journal; Biopolymers; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Journal of Chemical Physics; Journal of Computational Chemistry; Journal of Physical Chemistry B; Journal of Structural Biology; Physical Review Letters; Physical Review E; Proteins; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
• Conference and workshop organization
  
  • Organizer of the annual workshop From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology, Jülich, Germany, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011; Traverse City, MI, USA, 2010; Knoxville, TN, USA, 2012; Norman, OK, USA, 2013; Gdansk, Poland 2014; Oklahoma City, OK,USA, 2015; Ankara, Turkey 2016; Cincinnati, OH,USA 2017; Shenzhen, China 2018.
  • Co-organizer of the symposium Generalized-Ensemble Sampling Methods: Symposium in Honor of Dr. Bernd Berg's 60th Birthday , ACS meeting, San Fransisco 2010
  • Co-organizer of the workshop Algorithms in MacroMolecular Modeling, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, 2009
  • Co-organizer of the workshop Effiziente Simulation Biologischer Makromoleküle (Efficient Simulation of Biological Macromolecules) at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik, Berlin, Germany, 1994
  • Co-organizer of the Workshop on Cluster Computing at the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA, 1992
• Service at Michigan Technological University
  Advisory committee; Graduate studies committee; Undergraduate studies committee; Grievance committee; Chair of colloquium committee; Qualifying Exam committee; Computer and resources committee; Promotion and tenure committee; various faculty search committees
• Service at University of Oklahoma
  Colloquium and Seminar Committee; Graduate Studies Committee; faculty search committees

Awards and Honors:

• 1987 - 1989 NaföG Graduate Student Fellowship, Germany
• 1991 - 1993 DFG Postdoc Fellowship, Germany
• 1996 JSPS Fellowshi, Japan
• 1997 Fellow at the Center for interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of the Universität Bielefeld, Germany
• 1999, 2000, 2001 Fellow at the Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
• 1999, 2002 FASP Fellowship to visit the Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Sao Paulo (Ribeirao Preto campus), Brazil
• 2000, 2002 Michigan Technological University Faculty Scholarship Award
• 2008 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2009 Michigan Technological University Research Award

Invited Lectures at Conferences, workshops and lecture Series (last five years):

• 2015 Athens, GA, USA Recent Developments in Computer Simulational Studies in Condensed Matter Physics
• 2015 Stara Lesna, Slowakia Mathematical Modeling and Computational Physics: MMCP 2015
• 2015 Memphis, TN, USA Joint SWRM/SERMACS ACS Regional Meeting 2015
• 2015 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 3rd International Conference on Protein and RNA Structure Prediction
• 2016 Ankara, Turkey From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology
• 2016 Hsinchu, Taiwan 2016 NCTS International Workshop on Critical Phenomena and Complex Systems
• 2016 Gunacaste, Costa Rica 1st International Conference on Computational Genetics and Proteomics
• 2017 Leipzig, Germany CompPhys17
• 2017 Montego Bay, Jamaica 4th International Conference on Protein and RNA Structure Prediction
• 2018 Leipzig, Germany CompPhys18
• 2018 Cancun, Mexico 4th International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine
• 2019 Orlando, FL, USA 2019 ACS Spring Meeting
• 2019 Stara Lesna, Slowakia Mathematical Modeling and Computational Physics: MMCP2019
• 2019 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Fourth International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering: ICCSE-4
• 2019 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 5th International Conference on Protein and RNA Structure Prediction
• 2019 Leipzig, Germany CompPhys19