CV Dr. Ulrich H.E. Hansmann's CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

Ulrich H.E. Hansmann

Address

Department of Chemistry	phone: -1-405-325-2386
and Biochemistry	(GV: -1-906-523-1203)
University of Oklahoma	FAX: -1-405-325-6111
101 Stephenson Parkway	e-mail: uhansmann at ou.edu
Norman, OK 73019-5251, USA	URL: http:/www.hansmann-lab.com/

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 (current); Miranda S. Sheridan (current); 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

Contributed Lectures at Conferences and Workshops (last five years):

2017 Wittenberg, Germany International Discussion Meeting on Polymer Crystallization 2017

Numerous invited Seminars at Universities and other Scientific Institutions.