Birgit Strodel
Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Development of multiscale methods that bridge from the atomistic (microscopic) to a coarser (mesocopic) level for the description of biomolecules. Simulations investigating biomolecular self-assembly in proteins. Investigation of the protein-protein interactions driving protein aggregation. Specific projects are: Alzheimer's Aβ peptide interacting with lipid bilayers, D-peptides for the therapy of Alzheimer's disease, coarse-grained simulations of amyloid aggregation, development of a protein-protein docking program.
Vita
2018- | Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
2015- | Head of the Computational Biochemistry Group at the Institute for Structural Biochemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
2011-2017 | Junior-Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
2009-2014 | Head of the Young Investigators Group Multiscale Modelling of Protein Interactions at the Institute for Structural Biochemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
2006-2008 | Postdoc in the group of Prof. Dr. David J. Wales, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, UK |
2001-2005 | Ph.D. with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stock, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main |
2000 | Diploma work in Chemistry with Prof. Georg Jansen at the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf |
1995-2000 | Undergraduate studies in Chemistry (major) and Physics (minor) at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |