Advisory Board and Editors Biophysical Chemistry
Jan H Jensen
Jan H. Jensen obtained his PhD in theoretical chemistry in 1995 from Iowa State University working with Mark Gordon, where he continued as a postdoc until he joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 1997. In 2006 he moved to the University of Copenhagen, where he is now professor of bio-computational chemistry.
Prof. Jensen is the Editor-in-Chief of PeerJ Physical Chemistry.
Lucie Khemtemourian
Lucie Khemtemourian received an engineer diploma in chemistry from the Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM) in Strasbourg, France. She also received a Master degree of chemistry from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany. She performed her Ph.D. in Biophysics working on the synthesis, the structure and the dynamics of membrane peptides. Then, she joined Antoinette Killian’s group (University Utrecht) for 3 years as a postdoc. She worked on the interactions of amyloid peptides and artificial membranes using a biophysical approach. She was appointed associate scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2009 in Laboratory of Biomolecules (Paris). In 2019, she moved to the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nano-objects (CBMN) in Bordeaux and joined the team “spectroscopy and imaging of membrane active peptides”.
Using a pluridisciplinary approach conjugating peptide chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry, she has been interested in studying amyloid forming proteins. In particular, she tries to i) understand the process of fibril formation in solution and in membrane environments, ii) determine why some proteins are toxic and form fibrils only to specific cell lines, iii) find new molecules that inhibit fibril formation and cell death, and to iv) understand the behaviour of extrinsic and intrinsic factors that modulate fibril formation.
Thomas Kodger
Thomas completed his PhD from Harvard University in 2015 under Prof. David Weitz and postdoctoral studies from University of Amsterdam with Prof. Peter Schall. He is currently an assistant professor in the Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter laboratory at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands having joined in 2017.
Carmelo La Rosa
Carmelo La Rosa is a Professor of Physical-Chemistry at the University of Catania, Italy. He received a master’s degree in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Physical-Chemistry from the University of Catania (Italy), working on lyotropic liquid crystals. After completing postdoctoral training on thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding-unfolding at the University of Catania and Leiden University (The Netherland), he joined the department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania. His current research focuses on the biophysics of amyloidogenic proteins and their interaction with model membranes.
Matteo Lambrughi
I'm currently a PostDoctoral researcher at the Computational Biology Laboratory at the Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenaghen, Denmark.
Gerrick E Lindberg
I am a physical chemist with expertise in statistical thermodynamics. My interests include enhanced sampling methods, liquid structure and dynamics, soft matter interfaces, astrochemistry, ion transport, and biophysics. I earned degrees from Oregon State University (BSc) and Boston University (MS, PhD), performed postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, and I am an associate professor at Northern Arizona University.
Jinghui Luo
Dr. Jinghui Luo is a Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute, switzerland.
His research group is focused on understanding the structure and function of amyloid aggregates in neurodegeneration with two objectives:
(1) Optimizing stoichiometry-defined amyloid oligomers towards a new understanding of neurodegeneration.
(2) Characterizing the structure and function of amyloid condensates with the disease-related molecules in neurodegeneration.
Sweta Maheshwari
Dr. Sweta Maheshwari's expertise includes enzymology, biochemical and biophysical assay development, enzyme mechanisms, x-ray crystallography, and protein purification using eukaryotic and prokaryotic expression systems.
Daniel H. Murgida
Daniel H. Murgida, PhD, is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, and Principal Investigator of the National Research Council, CONICET, Argentina. His laboratory investigates structural, dynamics and mechanistic aspects of natural and chimeric electron transferring proteins and redox enzymes, with basic and applied purposes. This includes a variety of heme and copper metalloproteins that are investigated using spectroscopic, electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical methods in combination with protein engineering and computational simulations.
Ho Leung Ng
Principal Scientist, Atomwise. Adjunct associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Kansas State University. Research in computational/AI and structure-based drug design, biophotonics, machine learning for chemistry and drug discovery, protein crystallography.
Anoop Rawat
Dr. Anooop Rawat is a Research Associate at the University of Southern California.
His primary research is focused on understanding biophysical and structural basis of misfolding and aggregation of huntingtin protein which is implicated in Huntington's disease.
Frances Separovic
Professor and past Head of Chemistry, University of Melbourne. Biophysical Society Council (2007-10), Secretary (2015-2019); IUPAB Council (2002-05); Australian Society for Biophysics, ASB President (1999-2001); Australian New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance, ANZMAG President (2011-13); Editorial board of Accounts in Chemical Research; ASB Robertson Medal (2009); ANZMAG Medal (2011); Fellow of Biophysical Society, Fellow of Australian Academy of Science, ISMAR Fellow (2012); IUPAC Distinguished Women of Chemistry/Chemical Engineering (2017).