Bioelectrodynamics webinar 038 - Matej Praprotnik
a talk by Matej Praprotnik from National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana: "Sub-THz acoustic excitation of protein motion"
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Matej Praprotnik of National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana
Sub-THz acoustic excitation of protein motion
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Matej Praprotnik is Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Modeling at the National Institute of Chemistry and professor of Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He studied physics and received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Ljubljana. He carried out postdoctoral research in the Theory group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany. Matej is former Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee. He served as President of the Slovenian Biophysical Society from 2015 to 2019. He also serves as a council member of CECAM and as a scientific council member of the National Institute of Chemistry. He is recipient of the ERC Advanced Grant 2019 by the European Research Council and the project coordinator of MultiXscale, a EuroHPC JU Center of Excellence. His research is focused on computer simulation of soft and biological matter. The focus is on developing and combining innovative computational and theoretical methods augmented by machine learning techniques to study complex molecular systems.
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