Hiqmet Kamberaj
Postdoctoral Research Associate
PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Home Department Physics
ASU Affiliations Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of Study Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics; Computational Biophysics


Background Biomolecular systems and in particular proteins are characterized by a complex topology of the energy landscape and a large number of energy minima. In addition, their dynamics involves motions of different time and size scales. The biological function of proteins is generally determined by correlated fluctuations involving large portions of the structure. These dominant correlated motions in macromolecules will certainly influence their behaviors on micro and nano-scales, and must be understood and appropriately handled in order to enable rational protein-based technologies. Thus, developing advanced computational methods that are capable to determine efficiently the equilibrium conformations of proteins in aqueous solvent is a major goal of computational biophysics. Molecular dynamics methods are commonly used to drive biomolecular systems and have provided a significant contribution to understanding of protein structure and function. To overcome the problems arising from the time and size scale limitations of proteins, the molecular simulations methods, which allow the simulations of systems of biologically relevant size and time scale, have shown great interest. Our main aim is to further develop these methods that would allow us to investigate and predict the structure and function of proteins, as well as design rules for related technologies.
Hiqmet Kamberaj
Arizona State University
Department of Physics
PO Box 871504
Tempe, AZ 85287

phone: 480 965 8897
email: hkamberaj@asu.edu