Part-time Faculty Theoretical and Computational Biophysics
3055 Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 244-4593
Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group. She is also affiliated with the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology. Her current research focuses on developing a statistical mechanical framework and computational methods to predict protein structures and on integrating evolutionary and bioinformatic data into molecular dynamics simulations of large integrated biological systems.
Honors: Chair/Vice-Chair Biophysics Subsection of the ACS (2002-2005); Fellow of the American Physical Society (2000); Fellow-Advanced Studies Institute, Hebrew University, Israel (1998).