Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry

查尔斯·H·马丁博士被授予美国国家科学基金会化学博士后研究奖学金。马丁博士在卡尔·弗里德教授的指导下获得了芝加哥大学的博士学位。马丁博士将在克劳斯·舒尔滕教授的赞助下继续在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳/香槟分校进行研究。他的博士后研究将以理论生物物理学为目标，利用高性能计算机和量子力学方法，使用改进的半经验模型哈密顿来模拟生物过程。他的研究将把相关的、有效的价壳哈密顿电子结构方法与模拟技术和计算机编程相结合，以了解嵌入跨膜蛋白细菌视紫红质中的视网膜的实验吸收光谱，并促进该系统的未来量子力学/分子动力学研究。这项研究将加深我们对视网膜-细菌视紫红质相互作用的量子力学方面的理解，并为视网膜光异构化和质子泵过程的动态模拟奠定基础。化学博士后研究奖学金计划被视为一个重要的基础计划，旨在拓宽新博士的知识和经验，并吸引他们在当代化学研究和教学中从事有意义的职业。

Dr. Charles H. Martin has been awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chemistry. Dr. Martin received his doctoral degree from the Universityof Chicago under the supervision of Professor Karl Freed. Dr. Martin will continue research at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign under the sponsorship of Professor Klaus Schulten. His postdoctoral research will target theoretical biophysics utilizing high performance computers and quantum mechanical methods using improved semiempirical model Hamiltonians to model biological processes. His research will couple the correlated, effective valence shell Hamiltonian electronic structure method with simulation techniques and computer programming to understand the experimental absorption spectrum of retinal embedded in transmembrane protein bacteriorhodopsin and to facilitate future quantum mechanical/molecular dynamics studies of this system. The research will increase our understanding of the quantum mechanical aspects of the retinal-bacteriorhodopsin interactions and lay the foundation for dynamical simulations of retinal photoisomerization and proton pump processes. The Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Chemistry Program is viewed as an important infrastructural program designed to broaden the knowledge and experience of new Ph. D.s and attract them into meaningful careers in contemporary chemical research and teaching.