CURRICULUM VITAE

Ulrich H.E. Hansmann

I) Address:

Dept. of Physics	phone:  -1-906-487-4552 (GV: -1-906-523-1203)
Michigan Technological University	FAX:     -1-906-487-2933
1400 Townsend Dr.	e-mail:  hansmann at mtu.edu
Houghton, MI 49931-1295, USA	URL: http://www.phy.mtu/edu/biophys/

II) Education and Academic Background:

1. Abitur: July, 1978, Bodelschwingh Gymnasium, Herchen, Germany.
2. M.A. in Philosophy: October, 1983, Freie Universität Berlin,Germany
   (Advisor: Prof. Kamitz).
3. Diplom in Physics: November, 1985, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
   (Advisor: Prof. Robert Schrader).
4. Ph.D. in Physics: June, 1990, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
   (Thesis advisor: Prof. Robert Schrader).

III) Research and Teaching Positions:

1. October 1986 - June 1991, Lecturer, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, Germany.
2. July 1991 - June 1994, Postdoc. Research Associate, Department of Physics and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute (SCRI), The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
3. October 1994 - April 1996, Postdoc. Research Associate, Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (SCSC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
4. May 1996 - February 1998 ``Joshu'' (equivalent to Research Assistant Professor), Department for Theoretical Studies, Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, Aichi 444, Japan.
5. since March 1998, Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, USA; first as Assistant and Associate Professor, since May 2004 as Full Professor (tenured since May 2002). Also Adjunct Professor at Department of Biology and Center for Computational Science and Engineering.
6. July 2005 -Aug. 2007 also Head of the research group "Computational Biology and Biophysics" at the Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), FZ Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.

IV) Research Activities:

• See separated Research Statement for an overview of my current research activities.
• My research is documented in various articles, published in peer-reviewed journals, books or conference proceedings, as listed in the separated Publication list.
• My Hirsch-Index is 29; number of times that my papers were cited in refereed journals (all numbers taken from Science Citation Index/Web of Science):
  

  years 1990-2003: 2004: 2005: 2006: 2007: 2008:

  first-author papers              870              199              169              179              142              154

  total      1292      284      242      273      259      299

V) Teaching Experience:

• Freie Universität Berlin (1983-1987, 1989): Recitations sessions in Freshmen Physics, Undergraduate Lab, Electrodynamics.
• Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (1986-1991): Undergraduate courses in Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Computer Science and Computational Methods for scientists and engineers.
• Michigan Technological University (1998 - ): Graduate course in Theoretical Mechanics and Statistical Physics;
  undergraduate courses covering Thermodynamics, statistical Mechanics, Computational Physics, and General Physics;
  developed the curriculum for a course "Introduction into Protein Physics" and an interdisciplinary course "Bioinformatics and Biomoleciular Modeling" which I taught together with faculty from Biology, Chemistry, Forestry, Physics and Computer Science;
  supervision of undergraduate student projects.
• Former graduate students: 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).
• Current graduate students: Priya Anand (MTU).

VI) Service:

• As a student representative: participation in faculty meetings and various committees, including search committees for faculty positions, at the Freie Universität Berlin (1979-1984).
• Service in various Department and University committees at Michigan Technological University. Participation in graduate student examinations and faculty search comittees.

VII) Selected Professional Activities:

• Member American Physical Society
• Member Sigma Pi Sigma
• Referee for numerous journals, including Journal of Computational Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Chemical Physics, Biopolymers, Biophysical Journal, Proteins, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, and Journal of the American Chemical Society;
  referee and/or panel duty for various foundations and agencies, including National Science Foundation, Petroleum Research Fund, the Wellcome Trust, the Israel-USA Binational Science Foundation, Volkswagenstiftung, and the Landesstiftung Baden-Würrtemberg.
• Co-organizer of the "WORKSHOP ON CLUSTER COMPUTING" at the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA, December 2-4,1992.
• Co-organizer of the workshop "EFFIZIENTE SIMULATION BIOLOGISCHER MAKROMOLEKÜLE" (Efficient Simulation of Biological Macromolecules) at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, Berlin, Germany, September, 26th 1994.
• Organizer of the annual workshop "FROM COMPUTATONAL BIOPHYSICS TO SYSTEMS BIOLOGY" at the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), Jülich, Germany, June 6-9, 2006; May 2-4, 2007; and May 19-21, 2008.
• Co-organizer of the workshop "ALGORITHMS IN MACROMOLECULAR MOLDELING" at the University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, November 11-15, 2009.

VIII) Presented Lectures (last five years only):

• Invited Lectures at Conferences and Workshops:
  

  2004 Bedlewo, Poland 2004 Beijing, China 2004 Taipei, Taiwan 2005 Augusta,MI,USA 2005 Lyon, France 2005 Leipzig, Germany 2006 Jülich, Germany 2006 Warsaw, Poland 2006 Bad Honnef, Germany 2006 Strba, Slovakia 2007 Firenze, Italy 2007 Tallahassee, FL,USA 2007 Cambridge,MA,.USA 2007 Warsaw, Poland 2008 Jülich, Germany 2008 New Orleans, USA 2008 Orlando, FL, USA 2008 Telluride, CO, USA 2008 Talahassee, FL, USA 2009 Kashiwa, Japan 2009 Ribeirao Preto, Brazil 2009 Beijing, China 2009 Austin, TX, USA

  "Structure and Function of Biomolecules" "6th International Conference on Computational Physics (ICCP6-CCP2003)" International Workshop ``StatPhys-Taiwan-2002'' QBMI Midwest Computational Structural Biology Workshop "Rugged Free Energy Landscapes" "CompPhys05 - Workshop on Computational Physics" 37th Spring Schhol on Computational Condensed Matter Physics Symposium at Inauguration of the Bioinformatics Center of ICM at University of Warsaw 367th WE-Heraeus Seminar "Biomolecular Simulation: From Physical Principles to Biological Function". "Mathematical Modeling and Computational Physics: MMCP 2006" "apeNEXT:Computational Challenges and First Physics Results" "Quantitative Computational Biophysics" "Third Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods" "Inhibitors of Protein Kinases" "NIC Symposium 2008" "ACS National Meeting Spring 2008" "Florida Regional ACS meeting FAME 2008" "Algorithmic Development on Enhanced Sampling" "Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM2008)" "Supercomputing in Solid State Physics (SciSSP2009)" "I Escola e Conferencia em Modelagem Computacional" "Function and Dynamics of Biomolecules" "Algorithms in Macro Molecular Modeling"

• Contributed Lectures at Conferences and Workshops:
  

  2004 Athens, GA (USA) 2008 Ouro Preto (Brazil) 2009 Orlando, FL (USA)

  11. Workshop "Recent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics" "Computer Physics Conference (CCP2008)" "Florida Regional ACS meeting FAME 2009"

• Numerous invited Seminars at Universities and other Scientific Institutions.

IX) Research Support:

2000-2003: US$ 208,000 Research Grant CHE-9981874 (National Science Foundation) Development and Application of Generalized - Ensemble Algorithms for Protein Folding.

2003-2007: US$ 599,137 Research Grant GM62838 (National Institutes of Health) Folding and Structural Transitions in Small Proteins.

2003-2007: US$328,000 Research Grant CHE-0313618 (National Science Foundation) Development and Application of Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms for Protein Studies.

2006-2007: Euro 180,000 (approx. 225,000 US$) NIC Computer Time Grant (Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany) Adaptive Multiscale Simulation of Model Cell Spreading on Polymer Substrates, with Caroline Taylor, MTU (PI).

2006-2007: Euro 210,000 (aprox. 262,000 US$) NIC Computer Time Grant (Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany) Protein Folding and Protein Intertaction in Silico

2007-2008: Euro 210,000 (aprox. 290,000 US$) NIC Computer Time Grant (Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany) Protein Folding and Protein Intertaction in Silico

2008-2009: Euro 210,000 (aprox. 315,000 US$) NIC Computer Time Grant (Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany) Protein Folding and Protein Intertaction in Silico

2008-2011: US$420,000 Research Grant CHE-0809002 (National Science Foundation) Development of Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms and their Application in Protein Studies.

2009-2013: US$776,383 Research Grant GM62838 (National Institutes of Health) Folding, Mis-folding and Aggregation of Small Proteins.

X) Awards and Honors:

1. April 1987 - March 1989, NaföG Graduate Student Fellowship.
2. June 1991 - May 1993, DFG Postdoc Fellowship.
3. January 1996, JSPS Fellowship.
4. June -July 1997, Fellow at the Center for interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of the Universität Bielefeld.
5. July 1999, Aug.2000 and June 2001, Fellow at the Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan).
6. August 1999& 2002, FASP Fellowship to visit the Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Sao Paulo (Ribeirao preto campus), Brazil.
7. Feb.2000 & 2002, MTU Faculty Scholarship Award ($ 2000 and $ 1300).
8. 2008 Fellow of the American Physical Society
9. 2009 Michigan Tech Research Award