Klaus Schulten
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Schulten is a Swanlund Professor of Physics, directs the Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and co-directs the Center for the Physics of Living Cells in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Department of Physics. His research, focused on molecular assembly and cooperation in biological cells, requires large scale computing. He was the first to demonstrate that parallel computers can be practically employed to solve the classical many-body problem in biomolecular modeling. Thousands of researchers worldwide use his group's software in molecular graphics (VMD) and modeling (NAMD) on personal computers as well as at the world's leading supercomputing centers. Presently his group is developing a new computational method that assists biologists in solving the structures of the very large macromolecular complexes forming the machinery of living cells. Schulten holds a Diplom degree in physics from the University of Muenster, Germany, and a PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University. He was junior group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biophysical Chemistry from 1974 to 1980, and professor of theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1980 to 1988, before joining UIUC. |
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| Honors and awards: Distinguished Service Award, Biophysical Society (2013); IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award (2012); Fellow of the Biophysical Society (2012); Award in Computational Biology (2008); Humboldt Award of the German Humboldt Foundation (2004); University of Illinois Scholar (1996); Fellow of the American Physical Society (1993); Nernst Prize of the Physical Chemistry Society of Germany (1981). | |
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