Biocomputing

Address: Dept. of Biological Sciences, BIOL 415 University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta Canada, T2N 1N4 Tel: (403) 220-2966 Fax: (403) 289-9311 Email: tieleman[@]ucalgary.ca

Professional

Research interests: membrane biophysics, membrane proteins, lipid polymorphism, simulation methods. A list of my publications is available, as well as a CV (pdf format).

• 2005 - present. Professor, AHFMR Senior Scholar, CIHR New Investigator. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
• 2007 - 2008. Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia
• 2003 - 2005. Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
• 2001 - present. Adjunct Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary
• 2000 - 2003. Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
• 1999 - 2000. EMBO long term fellowship, University of Oxford
• 1998 - 1999. Postdoctoral fellow SON/Unilever
• Coauthor of the Gromacs molecular dynamics software package

Editorial boards

• 2008 - present, Editorial Board, Journal of Membrane Biology (Springer)
• 2008 - present, Editorial Board, Protein Engineering, Design and Selection (Oxford University Press)
• 2008 - present, Associate Editor, BMC Research Notes (BioMedCentral)
• 2006 - present, Editorial Board, Channels (Landes Bioscience)
• 2005 - present, Editorial Board, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Elsevier)
• 2004 - present, Editorial Board, Biophysical Journal (Biophysical Society)
• 2004 - present, Associate Editor BMC Biochemistry (BioMedCentral)
• 2004 - present. Member, Faculty of 1000
• 2002 - 2008. Editorial Board, Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics (Humana Press)

Professional societies

• Member Biophysical Society (USA) (1998-present)
• Member Dutch Royal Chemical Society (1995-2008)
• Member Netherlands Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NVBMB)
• Member American Chemical Society (2000-present)

Honors

• 2010. Canadian Who's Who (University of Toronto Press)
• 2009. Calgary Top 40 under 40
• 2009. Faculty of Science Award of Excellence in Research, University of Calgary
• 2009-2011. E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• 2008. Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada
• 2005-2010. AHFMR Senior Scholar
• 2005-2010. CIHR New Investigator
• 2004-2006. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
• 2001. Canadian Hunter Young Innovator Award
• 2001. Visiting Professor, University of Chile, Santiago
• 2000 - 2005. AHFMR Medical Scholar
• 1999. EMBO long term fellowship
• 1999. Thesis award Dutch Biophysical Society 1997-1999
• 1999. Thesis award Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap Groningen (Van Swinderen prijs)

Educational

1998 PhD Chemistry: University of Groningen (cum laude)
Promotor: prof. dr. H.J.C. Berendsen
Thesis: Theoretical studies of membrane models: molecular dynamics of water, lipids and membrane proteins

1995 MSc (doctoraal) Chemistry: University of Groningen (cum laude)
Major subject: Biophysical Chemistry
Minor subject: Computational Chemistry

1995 MA (doctoraal) Philosophy: University of Groningen (cum laude)
1993-1994 University of Colorado at Boulder
Thesis: Buridan on top of his world: Absolute directions in the heavens in Buridan's Questiones de caelo et mundo and other medieval commentaries on De Caelo.
Major subject: History of Science and Philosophy (prof. J.D. North)
Minor subjects: Systematic Philosophy, Medieval Studies (paleography, Latin)