Berend Smit
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
U.C. Berkeley
berend-smit@berkeley.edu 510-642-9275
- Education
MSc Chemical Engineering-Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands
MSc Physics-Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
PhD Chemistry- Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Awards
2006 Marie Curie Excellence Grant of the European Community
1997 Gold Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society
1998 Dutch Research Council PIONIER grant award
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- Research Interests
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A central theme in our research is trying to
understand how the environment influences the molecular behavior
of many systems of scientific and technological interest. One
example is the absorption of molecules in the nano-pores of
a zeolite, for which it is difficult to obtain experimental
data. We have developed accurate models of the interactions
between the molecules that allow us to mimic the experimental
situation and to predict experimental properties, such as diffusion
coefficients or adsorption isotherms. As the majority of the
constituents of many everyday materials, from gasoline to a
plastic PET bottle, have seen the inside of a zeolite catalyst,
providing these molecular insights is not only of scientific
importance. Proteins or peptides in a membrane have a very
different environment from proteins in the cell. To understand
how proteins interact in a membrane, multi-scale computational
approaches are developed that allow us to study the effects
of changes in the membrane structure on the collective behavior
of these molecules.
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MSD Research Projects
Helios SERC
Self-Assembly
of Membrane Proteins (LDRD)
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Personal website: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/molsim/drupal/
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