Curricurum Vitae
Education †
Academic Positions †
Research Interests †
- Long-distance electron tunneling in proteins.
- Fluctuating anharmonic vibrational Hamiltonian of several chromophores from first principle coupled to classically modeled environment (QM/MM).
- Eigenstate calculations of multimode anharmonic vibrational potential by employing vibrational configuration interatction (CI) and perturbation theory.
- Higher level approximations of electrostatic couplings, e. g. transition multipole couplings (dipole-dipole, dipole-quadrupole, quadrupole-quadrupole, dipole-octapole etc).
- Nonadiabatic couplings, population relaxations, and resonance transfer of fluctuating vibrational systems.
- Dynamical fluctuations of water, protein, DNA, lipid and sugar.
- Proton transfer.
- Simulational studies of nonlinear infrared spectroscopy.
- Development of polarizable force field based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and its application to biomolecules.
- Solvent effect on excited state dynamics.
Teaching Experiences †
- 3 consecutive 90 minutes classes for graduate students on ”Introduction of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy” at Kobe University,Japan (2007/09/11-13), which includes the key concepts such as quantum mechanics, density matrix, Hilbert and Liouville space, cumulant expansion of Gaussian fluctuations, response function, perturbation theory, and basics of nonlinear infrared spectroscopy.
Skills and experience in Computational Chemistry †
Familiar Computational Tools: †
- Publishing and Presentation: LaTeX, MS Office(Word, Power Point, Excel), OpenOffice, EndNote, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Canvas
- Data Analysis: Mathematica, Igor Pro, Origin
Programming Languages †
- Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Fortran 95, Fortran 2003
- C, C++
- Python, Perl
- MPI Parallel Computing
- bash, csh, sh
- HTML
Programming Experiences †
- Implementation of energy gradient at the Hartree-Fock, MPn and DFT level in presence of nonuniform multipole electric field to Gaussian 03 code (Fortran 77).
- Development of a molecular dynamics code which handles rigid body dynamics, Ewald summation and molecular polarization (Fortran 77).
- Development of a code to calculate the electron tunneling pathways and electron transfer matrix element at the spin-unrestricted ZINDO level (Fortran 2003).
- Development of a code to calculate anharmonic vibrational potential energy surface up to 6th order in multiple normal modes and to calculate eigenstates and eigenfunctions based on vibrational configuration interaction (VCI) (Fortran 95).
- Development of a code to generate Electrostatic DFT Map (EDM): A map of spectroscopic properties (eigenfrequencies, transition dipole moments, equilibrium geometries) of a molecule with respect to multipole electric field (Fortran 95).
- Coauthor of SPECTRON code which calculates linear and nonlinear infrared and electronic spectra of proteins based on a QM/MM method (Fortran 95, C++)
- Various scripts for data analysis (Python, Perl)
- Administration of Shaul Mukamel's webpage (HTML)
Calculation Experiences †
- Gaussian, GAMESS, and ORCA : Quantum Chemical calculation of geometries, normal modes, excitation energies, polarizabilities, partial charges spin-dependent properties, etc at the Hartree-Fock, DFT, MP2, MP4 Coupled-Cluster and CAS-SCF level.
- GROMACS, CHARMM and NAMD : Molecular dynamics simulations of water, proteins, sugars etc..
Familiar operating systems and Administrations: †
- Linux, UNIX, Windows, DOS, and MAC
- Administration of a PC cluster at Stuchebrukhov group.
- Administration of NFS file servers, Samba file servers, Apache web servers, CVS servers at Mukamel group, Stuchebrukhov group and at home
Professional Affiliations †
Language †
- English: Fluent in speaking and writing
- Japanese: Native