Prof. Dr. Birgit Strodel

Contact Details

Forschungszentrum Jülich
ICS-6: Structural Biochemistry
52425 Jülich
Germany

Tel.: +49-2461-61-3670
Email: b.strodel at fz-juelich.de

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 Grant
  
• 1998-2000: Fellowship from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  
• 1998-1999: Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  

Publications

see here

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)

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

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

Other Interests

• Reading (newspapers, scientific papers, contemporary literature)
• Medicine
• Cycling and doing athletics
• Lisa and Andy