• Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena California, 1985.
• B.S., Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1980.
• R.J. Reynolds Professor of Chemistry, Duke University.
• Professor Beratan is also affiliated with the Duke University Department of Biochemistry and with the Duke Molecular Biophysics Program. For more information, visit the sites listed below.

Honors:

• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Member of the Editorial Board, Molecular Simulation
• Conrad E. Ronneberg Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago, April 2001
• Ralph and Lucy Hirschmann Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, May 2000
• Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, 1999 - 2000
• J.S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1999-2000
• Burroughs-Wellcome Travel Fellow, University of Oxford, 1999-2000
• Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, 1998
• NSF National Young Investigator (NYI) Award recipient, 1992-97
• Visiting Associate in Chemistry, Caltech, July 1989-July 1993 & June 1996
• Visiting Professor, São Carlos Institute of Physics and Chemistry, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil, August 1988
• National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship (RRA) recipient, 1985-1987
• Graduation with Honors and with Distinction (in Chemistry), Duke University, 1980

Ilya Balabin

(919) 660-1656

Ilya Balabin's page at Duke Chemistry

• Ph.D., Physics, University of California, San Diego, 1999.
• M.S., Physics (Magna Cum Laude), Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, 1985.

Current Project: Theoretical Analysis of STM currents in Biomolecules and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins.

Alexander Balaeff

(919) 660-1634

• Ph.D., Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana, 2002.
• M.S., Molecular Biology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1994.
• B.S., Applied Physics and Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1992.

Current Project: Model ATP coupled processes in proteins.

Bala Desinghu

(919) 660-1634

• Ph.D., Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 2004
• M.S., Physics, Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry, India, 1997
• B.S., Physics, Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry, India, 1994

Current Project: Semi-empirical methods applied to the inverse design problem

Xiangqian Hu

(919) 660-1534

• Ph.D., Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, P.R.China, 2004
• B.S., Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjing, P.R.China, 1999

Current Project: Inverse Design

Shahar Keinan

(919) 660-1640

• Ph.D., Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2000.
• B.S., Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1994.

Current Project: Inverse Design With an Emphasis on Nonlinear Optical.

Christopher Rinderspacher

(919) 660-1633

• Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry, University of Georgia, 2005.
• M.S., Chemistry, Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany, 2000.
• B.S., Chemistry, Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany, 1997.

Current Project: Inverse Theoretical Design of molecular materials and electronic structure and reduced density matrix theory.

Ravindra Venkatramani

(919) 660-1634

• Ph.D., Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2005.
• M.S., Physics, Pune University, Maharashtra, India, 1997.
• B.S., Physics, Fergusson College, Maharashtra, India, 1995.

Current Project: Protein electron transfer and DNA charge transfer.