Group Pictures David N. Beratan (919) 660-1526 For a complete e-mail directory, please go to: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Chemistry/completedir.html David Beratan

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

Post-Doc Research Associates

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.
Xiangqian Hu (919) 660-1640 Ph.D., Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, P.R.China, 2004 B.S., Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjing, P.R.China, 1999 Current Project: Inverse Design
Aleksey Kuznetsov (919) 660-1634 B.S./M.Sc. Radioecology, Republic of Belarus 1995 Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Utah State University, 2003   Current Project: Electron transfer cofactor electronic structure
David Minh (919) 660-1633 Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, 2007 M.S. Chemistry University of California, San Diego, 2006 B.A. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2003 Current project: theoretical studies of charge transfer in DNA and PNA and developing novel approaches to molecular library design.
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.
Aaron Virshup (919) 660-1633 B. A. Physics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Ia. M.S. Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Current Project: Molecular Library Design

 

 

 

Graduate Students

		Jiaxing Lin (919) 660-1634 CV B.S., Physical Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) P.R. China, 2010 Chemisty Department Current Project: light harvesting process of MOFs
		Chaoren Liu (919) 660-1634 CV B.S., Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) M.S. Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) Chemisty Department Current Project: Electron Transfer in DNA/PNA Nano Structures
		Zheng Ma (919) 660-1634 CV B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 2010 Chemisty Department Current Project: 2D-Infrared Spectroscopy
		Nicholas Polizzi (919) 660-1633   B.S., Biology, Cornell University Dec. 2007 In Biochemistry Department Current Project: Hole transfer in de novo designed peptides
		Chetan Rupakheti (919) 660-1633   B.S. in Applied Mathematics and B.S. in Biology B.S. Minor in Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, 2009 In CBB and SBB departments Current Project: Chemical Methodologies Library Design webpage
		Yi "Yves" Wang (919) 660-1634 B.S., University of Science and Technology of China School of Life Sciences, National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, China Enrolled in Ph.D. program Department of Biochemistry, Duke. Current Project: Theoretical and experimental study of new models for prediction of heat capacity change in host-guest comlexation.
Associates
Research web page		Ilya Balabin Research Scholar, Duke Scientist at Lockheed Martin Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, San Diego M.S. cum laude in Physics, Moscow State University, Russia Current Research: Allosteric regulation of protein function and protein electron transfer
		Horacio Carias On leave from Duke, working at Accenture in Management Consulting B.S., Chemistry, University of Central Florida. 2006 PhD doctoral candidate Duke Current Project: Inverse ligand and nanoparticle design CV
		Judith Hempel J.C. Hempel Consulting, LLC B.S., Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin PhD, Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin Current Project: Protein electron tunneling and structure based drug discovery
		Nan Jiang   B.S., Chemistry, Shandong University P.R. China, 2003 PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, Duke University, 2011 Current Project: Sculpting Molecular Potentials to Design Optimized Materials.
		Shahar Keinan (919) 660-1640 Staff Scientist with UNC Energy Frontier Research Center Solar Fuels Project Ph.D., Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2000. B.S., Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1994.
		Spiridon Skourtis B.S., Physics & Mathematics, University of Miami PhD, Theoretical Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Cyrpus Current Research: Theory and computation of charge and energy transport phenomena in biological and molecular systems (solution, molecular junction, single molecule settings)
Prior Post-Docs / Students
Name	Year	Present Affiliation
Julia Contreras-Garcia	2011	Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
Bala Desinghu	2010	Indiana University
Michael Galperin	2002	University of California, San Diego
Lev Gelb	1999	Washington University
Michael-Rock "Rocky" Goldsmith	2005	Environmental Protection Agency
Elizabeth Hatcher	2007	University of Maryland
Tsutomu Kawatsu	2005	Kyoto University
Rama Kondru	1999	Roche Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Christof Kuhn	1995	Physician, Switzerland
Igor Kurnikov	2000	Carnegie-Mellon University
Maria Kurnikova	2001	Carnegie-Mellon University
Mikyung Lee	2000	Unknown
Jielou "Jeff" Liao	2005	Transtech Pharma Company
Parag Mukhpadhyay	2009	Rockefeller University
Jianping Lin	2006	Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Melissa Pasquinelli	2004	North Carolina State University
Satyam Priyadarshy	1996	Network Solutions
Tatiana Prytkova	2006	Chapman University, Orange, CA
Chrisopher Rinderspacher	2009	Army Research Laboratory
Steven Risser	1995	Battelle Memorial Institute
Spiros Skourtis	1996	University of Cyprus
Glenna Tong	2002	University of Hong Kong
Dequan Xiao	2009	Yale University
Jieru Zheng	2007	Michael Allen Company
Gerard Zuber	2008	Philip Morris Company