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Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
A220 CLSL
600 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Martin Gruebele
Director of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
William H. and Janet Lycan Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics and Biophysics
Education
B.S. University of California at Berkeley 1984
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley 1988
Postdoc. California Institute of Technology
Experimental and theoretical understanding of the dynamics of complex molecular systems
My research focuses on a better experimental and theoretical understanding of the dynamics of complex molecular systems. Three important sources of complexity are large molecular size, interaction with the environment, and high internal energy. Our experimental work on the earliest backbone kinetics during protein folding emphasizes the first two aspects; our computational studies of vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) and our experimental work in energy and time-resolved spectroscopies of highly vibrationally excited molecules emphasize the latter two aspects; finally, studies of energy transfer, switching, and laser-assisted desorption of atoms and molecules on surfaces combines all three aspects as part of an interdisciplinary research team at the Beckman Institute.
Representative Publications