Curriculum Vitae
Kenneth M. Merz Jr.
Professional Addresses: Department of Chemistry
Quantum Theory Project
2328 New Physics Building
PO Box 118435
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611-8435
Telephone: 352-392-6973
FAX: 352-392-8722
Cell: 814-360-0376
E-Mail: merz@qtp.ufl.edu
Home Page: http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/~merz
Position: Professor of Chemistry
Pharmacopeia, Inc., Position: Senior Director of the ADMET R&D Group, 2000-2001
Pharmacopeia, Inc., Position: Senior Director of the Center for Informatics and Drug Design (CIDD), 1998-2000
The Pennsylvania State University, Associate Professor of Chemistry, 1996-1998
The Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1989-1996
Home Address: 153 Brothers Court
Port Matilda, Pennsylvania 16870
Personal: Birthdate: New York, USA: January 24, 1959.
Education: University of California, San Francisco
September 1987 to February 1989
Supervisor: Peter Kollman (Deceased)
Research: Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics
Position: Post-doctoral Fellow
Cornell University
January 1986 to September 1987
Supervisor: Roald Hoffmann
Research: Applied Molecular Orbital Theory
Position: Post-doctoral Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin
June 1981 to December 1985
Supervisor: Michael J. S. Dewar (Deceased)
Research: Applied Electronic Structure Theory
Degree: Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry
Washington College
September 1977 to May 1981
Research: Synthesis of Polysaccharides.
Degree: B. S. in Chemistry
Honors and Awards: Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999
Visiting
Lecturer, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg 1998.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1996-1997.
Visiting Lecturer, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg 1996-1997.
Office of Naval Research-Young Investigator, 1990-1993.
National Institutes of Health FIRST Award, 1991-1996.
Visiting Lecturer, University of Firenze, 1992.
Robert A. Welch Predoctoral Fellow, 1982 to 1985, The
University of Texas at Austin.
Departmental Competitive Fellowships, Fall 1981, The
University of Texas at Austin.
Robert A. Welch Summer Research Fellow, Summer
1981, The University of Texas at Austin.
Service: Member Peer Review Board for Pittsburg Supercomputer Center and the National Center for Supercomputer Applications 1994-1997.
Member MetaCenter Review Panel 1996-2002.
Member Peer Review Board for the National Center for Supercomputer Applications 1997-2002.
Member Advisory Board for the National Center for Supercomputer Applications 2002-present.
ad hoc Reviewer for BBCA Study Section 1997.
ad hoc Reviewer for BMT Study Section 2002-3.
ad hoc Reviewer for ZRG1 BCMB-Q Study Section 2005.
Reviewer for major NIH and NSF project grants.
Editorial Board
Memberships: Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (CTN) (2003-present)
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (2002 – 2005)
Journal of Molecular Modeling (1997 - present)
Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modeling (1997-2001)
Societies: Phi Kappa Phi
American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
New York Academy of Sciences
Biophysical Society
American Physical Society
Protein Society