Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hummer
DirectorCurriculum Vitae
1990
Mag. rer. nat., Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
1992
Dr. rer. nat., Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
1993 – 1996
Postdoc, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
1996 – 1999
Technical Staff Member (PI) (96-99) and Team Leader (99), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
1999 – 2013
Investigator (99-02), Senior Investigator (02-13), Section Chief (06-13) and Deputy Laboratory Chief (12-13), Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
2013 –
Director, Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
2018 – 2019
Managing Director, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
2016 –
Professor of Biophysics, Department of Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
2015 –
Senior Fellow, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Main Focus
Computational and theoretical molecular biophysics; structure, stability, dynamics, and function of biomolecules and their complexes; methods development for and applications of molecular dynamics simulations and molecular modeling; membrane homeostasis, dynamics and remodeling; biological energy conversion; biomolecular transport; biological signal transduction; enzymatic catalysis; autophagy; drug binding; viral protein dynamics; nonequilibrium dynamics and thermodynamics