[home] [publications] [projects] [cv] [links] [pics] [disclaimer]
[english] [deutsch] [italiano] [português]

Curriculum Vitae

(also available as pdf file: short / long version)

Personal Data
Name: Andreas W. Götz
Nationalities: German, Italian
Place of birth: Nürnberg, Germany
 
Appointments
07/11-today Assistant Project Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, working on QM, QM/MM and GPU accelerated (bio)molecular simulation methods.
 
Professional Preparation
06/09-06/11 Postdoctoral researcher working on QM and QM/MM simulation methods at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the group of Prof. R. Walker.
11/06-04/09 Postdoctoral researcher working on frozen density embedding in density functional theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in the group of Prof. Dr. L. Visscher.
09/05-10/06 Postdoctoral researcher working in the area of time-dependent density functional theory and the optimized effective potential method at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) in the group of Prof. Dr. A. Görling.
11/01-08/05 PhD studies in Theoretical Chemistry on the topic Density functional methods for the calculation of large molecules at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. B.A. Hess (deceased) and Prof. Dr. A. Görling.
10/95-10/01 Chemistry studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
Diplomarbeit (master's thesis) in Theoretical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. B.A. Hess
Diplom (M.S.) degree with honours
04/98-06/98 Study visit in the group of Prof. Dr. D. Braga at the University of Bologna (Italy)
Research Field Crystal engineering of organic-organometallic compounds
09/87-06/95 Sigena-Gymnasium (high school), Nürnberg (Germany)
09/83-07/87 Elementary school Wiesenschule, Nürnberg (Germany)
 
Awards
07/02 Zerweck prize of the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg for excellence in the Diplom exam (final exams)
Prize of the "Alumni of Chemistry Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg" for the Diplomarbeit (master's thesis)
06/95 Book prize of the "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie" for the chemistry A-levels
 
Grants and Fellowships
03/11 Department of Energy (DOE) Scientific Discoveries through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) / National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) subcontract (PI): Advanced QM and MM Computational Methods Development
02/11 UCSD TRO (Triton research opportunities) grant of $23,850 and 164k SUs (Co-PI): Development and Application of Parallel QM/MM Methods for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Heterogeneous Chemical Reactions on Atmospheric Aerosols
01/11 NSF TeraGrid grant of 1,475k SUs (Co-PI): Development and application of advanced classical and QM/MM molecular dynamics algorithms for simulation of condensed phase biological systems.
10/10 NSF TeraGrid startup grant of 188k SUs (PI): New QM/MM approaches for high performance molecular dynamics simulations of condensed phase biological systems.
09/10 DEISA/TeraGrid grant for the participation in the School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences in Acireale, Italy
08/03 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) grant for the participation in the European Summerschool in Quantum Chemistry (ESQC-03)
07/03-08/2005 Scholar of e-fellows.net
05/02-08/2005 Scholar of the graduate college 312 Homogener und heterogener Elektronentransfer (Homogeneous and heterogeneous electron transfer)
11/01-04/02 PhD scholarship of the graduate college 312 Homogener und heterogener Elektronentransfer (Homogeneous and heterogeneous electron transfer)
 
Synergistic activities
Co-developer of the ADF density functional software package
Co-developer of the AMBER molecular dynamics software package
Peer reviewer for the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
03/2011 Organization of an ADF workshop at SDSC.
08/2011 Organization of an AMBER workshop at ECNU in Shanghai, China.
 
Student supervision
02/2011 - present Matthew Clark (Internship at SDSC)
2007 - present S. Maya Beyhan (PhD thesis)
07/2011 Mike Wu (REHS summer internship at SDSC)
08/2010 Matthew Clark and Prithvi Undavalli (LSSI summer internship at SDSC)
06/2009 Patricia Torres Celis (Master thesis)
05/2009 Henk van Lingen (undergraduate research project)
09/2006 Arjen J. Jakobi and Peter R. Tentscher (undergraduate research project)
05/2006 Sebastian Lacher (Bachelor thesis)
 
Participation in workshops and conferences
01/2012 AMBER developer meeting, Rutgers University (NJ), USA
03/2011 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim (CA), USA
03/2011 AMBER developer meeting, Athens (GA), USA
10/2010 Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery at SDSC, La Jolla (CA), USA
10/2010 DEISA/TeraGrid School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, Acireale, Italy
08/2010 Gordon Research Conference Computational Chemistry, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
03/2010 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco (CA), USA
01/2010 AMBER developer meeting, Port Jefferson (NY), USA
11/2009 SC09 (Supercomputing), Portland (OR), USA
08/2009 MMTSB/CTBP Summer Workshop (Molecular simulation and structure prediction using Amber, CHARMM, and the MMTSB Tool Set), UCSD, San Diego (CA), USA
02/2009 Advanced Parallel Programming Course, CSC - IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland
01/2009 NWO Symposium, Lunteren, The Netherlands
11/2008 Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
01/2008 NWO Symposium, Lunteren, The Netherlands
11/2007 Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
09/2007 43. Symposium für Theoretische Chemie, Saarbrücken, Germany
08/2007 12. International Conference on the Applications of DFT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
06/2006 DFG Priority Program 1145 Symposium, Bad Herrenalb, Germany
05/2006 20. Darmstädter Molecular-Modelling-Workshop, Erlangen, Germany
05/2004 18. Darmstädter Molecular-Modelling-Workshop, Erlangen, Germany
08/2003 ESQC-03 European Summerschool in Quantum Chemistry, Tjörnarp, Sweden
07/2003 XIth ICQC (International Conference of Quantum Chemistry), Bonn, Germany
12/2002 Winterschool Large Molecules: Linear Scaling and Related Electronic Structure Calculation Methods, Helsinki, Finland
08/2002 38. Symposium for Theoretical Chemistry, International University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
08/2002 Summerschool Molecular Physics & Quantum Chemistry, Jesus College, Oxford, England
11/2001 Minisymposium of the Graduiertenkolleg 312 Homogener und heterogener Elektronentransfer (together with the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry), Veilbronn, Germany
05/1999 28th course of the International School of Crystallography Crystal Engineering: From molecules and crystals to materials, Erice (Sicily), Italy
05/1999 Darmstädter Molecular-Modelling-Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany
09/1998 Course Katalyse in Forschung und Anwendung (Catalysis in Research and Application) of the Summer Academy of the Friedrich-AlexanderUniversity of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Technical University of Munich, Sarntal (South Tyrol), Italy
09/1995 Workcamp under the organization of SCI (Service Civil International) for the renovation of a monastery at Àcqui Terme (Piemont), Italy
 
Languages
German: mother tongue
Italian: mother tongue
English: fluent
Portuguese: fluent
Dutch: good
French: basics
 
Computer expertise
Operating systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, DOS
Languages: Fortran, C, Python, Bash, Perl, GNU make, sed, gawk, Latex, HTML
Parallelization: MPI, OpenMP
Applications: Emacs, xfig, gnuplot, xmgrace, Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Chemistry: Various chemoinformatics, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and visualization software
Tools: PGI, Lahey/Fujitsu and Intel Fortran compiler and debugger, revision control with CVS, Subversion and git
 
Memberships
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
ACS (American Chemical Society)
GDCh (German Chemical Society)
DAV (German Alpine Club)
 
Hobbies and interests
Reading, Italian and Portuguese language and culture, fitness, snowboarding, surfing, scuba diving and sports climbing

last modification: 2012/01/19