Jim Pfaendtner
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. - Chemical Engineering - Northwestern University
B.S. - Chemical Engineering - Georgia Inst. of Technology
Bio:
Jim joined the Voth group in September 2007, and is a 2007 - 2009 recipient of an NSF International Research Fellows Program Award. He is currently working under the direction of Professor Michele Parrinello (ETH Zürich) while under the co-advisement of Dist. Professor Greg Voth. Jim's research interests feature modeling and simulation of large biomolecular assemblies, multiscale and coarse-grained modeling of actin filaments and branch junctions in the cytoskeleton, as well as the development and implementation of new methods for free-energy sampling in large assembly molecules.
Latest Publications:
- J. Pfaendtner and G. A. Voth, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Coarse-grained Analysis of the Unactivated Arp2/3 Complex," Biophys. J. ( in press).
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J. Pfaendtner and L. J. Broadbelt, “Mechanistic Modeling of Lubricant Degradation Part 1: Structure-Reactivity Relationships for Free-Radical Oxidation”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2008, 47 (9), 2886-2896.
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J. Pfaendtner and L. J. Broadbelt, “Mechanistic Modeling of Lubricant Degradation Part 2: The Autoxidation of Octane and Decane”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2008, 47 (9), 2897-2904.
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M. Siniawski, N. Saniei, and J. Pfaendtner, “Tribological Degradation of Two Vegetable-Based Lubricants at Elevated Temperatures”, J. Synth. Lubr., 2007, 24 (3), 167-169.
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J. Pfaendtner and L. J. Broadbelt, “Contra-thermodynamic Behavior in Intermolecular Hydrogen Transfer of Alkylperoxy Radicals, ROO· + R’H”, ChemPhysChem, 2007, 8 (13), 1969-1978.
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J. Pfaendtner, X. Yu, and L. J. Broadbelt, “The 1D Hindered Rotor Approximation”, Theor. Chem. Acc., 2007, 118 (5-6), 881-898.