Prof. Dr. Birgit Strodel
Head
Curriculum Vitae
since 2018
W2-Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
since 2015
Head of the Computational Biochemistry Group at the ICS-6: 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 ICS-6: 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 thesis in chemistry with Prof. Georg Jansen, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
1995-2000
Undegraduate studies in chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Awards and appointments
- since 2019: Lead Editor of Biophysical Chemistry
- 2018: Editorial Board member of Biophysical Chemistry
- 2016-2019: Associate Editor of RSC Advances
- 2009-2014: Helmholtz Young Investigators Grand
- 1998-2000: Fellowship from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- 1998-1999: Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Conference talks in 2019
- Simulations of the interactions between membrane binding proteins and lipids: the cases of guanylate binding proteins and GABARAP, CRC 1208 conference: Dynamics of Membrane Systems, 12-14 March 2019, Düsseldorf (Germany)
- Possibilities and current limitations of joining MD simulations and experiments: the cases of amyloid aggregation and membrane binding proteins, Workshop: Challenges in Large Scale Biomolecular Simulation 2019: Bridging Theory and Experiments, 13-17 May 2019, Cargèse (France)
- Possibilities and challenges of protein aggregation simulations, International Symposium of Chemistry, 23-30 June 2019, Havana (Cuba)
- Elucidation of protein aggregation pathways, CECAM workshop: Learning the Collective Variables of Biomolecular Processes, 10-12 July 2019, Paris (France)
- Title tba, The International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering , 24-27 July 2019, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
- Title tba, International Conference on Neurological Disorders and Therapeutics, 24-26 October 2019, Ahmedabad (India)
- Amyloid aggregation simulations: what can we learn from them?, International Symposium on Pathomechanisms of Amyloid Diseases, 18-20 December 2019, Miami Beach Florida (USA)
Theses
PhD thesis: Quantum-mechanical modeling of dynamics and femtosecond spectroscopy of photoisomerizations in condensed phase (in German)
Diploma thesis: Spheroidal multipole expansion for the calculation of intermolecular interactions
Outreach
- 2009, 2013, 2016: Understanding proteins with computer simulations, Hands-on sessions for the public at the “Tag der Neugier”, Forschungszentrum Jülich
- 2013: Forschung in 3-D: Vom Verständnis molekularer Maschinen zur gezielten Therapie, Festival Lecture (together with Prof. Dieter Willbold), Forschungszentrum Jülich [Video]
- 2015: Understanding proteins with computer simulations, Hands-on sessions and talk for the public at the “Night of Science”, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- 2015: Close-up science: Prof. Strodel about Alzheimer’s disease (in German) [Video]
- 2017: Teaching molecular modeling to Nigerian students at the Drug Discovery Africa 2017 conference at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Research interests
- Developing methods for studying protein aggregation in biological environments
- Protein-protein and protein-membrane interactions
- Protein aggregation and amyloid diseases
- Enzymes
Other interests
- Reading (newspapers, scientific papers, contemporary literature)
- Medicine
- Cycling and doing athletics
- Lisa and Andy
