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{{Short description|Dutch computational chemist}}
{{Short description|Dutch computational chemist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name=Nico van der Vegt
| name = Nico van der Vegt
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| birth_date= {{birth date and age|1970|11|14|df=y}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|11|14|df=y}}
| birth_place= [[Raalte]], The Netherlands
| birth_place = [[Raalte]], The Netherlands
| nationality= Dutch
| nationality = Dutch
| alma_mater = [[University of Twente]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Twente]]
| doctoral_advisor = Wim Briels, Heiner Strathmann
| doctoral_advisor = Heiner Strathmann
| academic_advisors = Wim Briels, Matthias Wessling, Wilfred F. van Gunsteren
| thesis_year = 1998
| website = {{URL|https://www.cpc.tu-darmstadt.de}}
| thesis_title = Molecular dynamics simulations of sorption and diffusion in rubbery and glassy polymers
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
* [[ETH Zurich|ETH Zürich]]
* [[ETH Zurich|ETH Zürich]]
* [[Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research]]
* [[Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research]]
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'''Nico van der Vegt''' (born 1970 in [[Raalte]]) is a Dutch chemist and a professor for computational physical chemistry at [[Technische Universität Darmstadt]]
'''Nico van der Vegt''' (born 1970 in [[Raalte]]) is a Dutch chemist and a professor for computational physical chemistry at [[Technische Universität Darmstadt]].


== Career ==
== Academic career ==
Van der Vegt studied chemical engineering and obtained his PhD from the [[University of Twente]], The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wim Briels and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiner Strathmann in 1998.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=CPC |title=Prof. Dr. Nico van der Vegt |url=https://www.cpc.tu-darmstadt.de/peoplemenu_cpc/people_cpc/cpc_staff_details_55425.en.jsp |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=CPC – TU Darmstadt |language=en}}</ref> From 1998 to 2002, he was a lecturer at the University of Twente. Following this, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at [[ETH Zurich|ETH Zürich]] (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich), Switzerland with Prof. Dr. Wilfred van Gunsteren from 2002 to 2003.<ref name=":0" /> He then led a research group at the [[Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research]], Mainz, Germany. In 2009, he was appointed as a full professor for computational physical chemistry at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chemie |title=Professoren Chemie (Einzelansicht) |url=https://www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/forschung_5/arbeitsgruppen/alleprofessoren/professoren_einzelansicht_10304.de.jsp |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Chemie – TU Darmstadt |language=de}}</ref>
Van der Vegt studied chemical engineering and received his PhD from the [[University of Twente]] in 1998 on a study of methods for calculating thermodynamic and transport properties of small molecules in polymer membranes based on computer simulations.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=CPC |title=Prof. Dr. Nico van der Vegt |url=https://www.cpc.tu-darmstadt.de/cpc/people_cpc/cpc_staff_details_55425.en.jsp |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=CPC – TU Darmstadt |language=en}}</ref> From 1998 to 2002, he was a lecturer at the University of Twente. Following this, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at [[ETH Zurich|ETH Zürich]] with Wilfred F. van Gunsteren from 2002 to 2003.<ref name=":0" /> He then led a research group at the [[Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research]], Mainz, Germany. In 2009, he was appointed as a full professor for computational physical chemistry at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chemie |title=Professoren Chemie (Einzelansicht) |url=https://www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/fachbereich_chemie/arbeitsgruppen_chem/index.de.jsp |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Chemie – TU Darmstadt |language=de}}</ref>


== Research ==
His main research interests are in computational soft matter, particularly in understanding the thermodynamics and physical fundamentals of aqueous [[solvation]], including [[Hofmeister series|Hofmeister ion chemistry]] and [[cosolvent]] effects.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hess |first1=Berk |last2=van der Vegt |first2=Nico F. A. |date=2006-09-01 |title=Hydration Thermodynamic Properties of Amino Acid Analogues: A Systematic Comparison of Biomolecular Force Fields and Water Models |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp0641029 |journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry B |language=en |volume=110 |issue=35 |pages=17616–17626 |doi=10.1021/jp0641029 |pmid=16942107 |issn=1520-6106}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hess |first1=Berk |last2=van der Vegt |first2=Nico F. A. |date=2009-08-11 |title=Cation specific binding with protein surface charges |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=106 |issue=32 |pages=13296–13300 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0902904106 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=2717109 |pmid=19666545|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=van der Vegt |first1=Nico F. A. |last2=Nayar |first2=Divya |date=2017-11-02 |title=The Hydrophobic Effect and the Role of Cosolvents |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b06453 |journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry B |language=en |volume=121 |issue=43 |pages=9986–9998 |doi=10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b06453 |pmid=28921974 |issn=1520-6106}}</ref> His work also includes major development efforts to [[coarse-grained modeling]] of soft matter systems<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Brini |first1=Emiliano |last2=Algaer |first2=Elena A. |last3=Ganguly |first3=Pritam |last4=Li |first4=Chunli |last5=Rodríguez-Ropero |first5=Francisco |last6=Vegt |first6=Nico F. A. van der |date=2013-07-31 |title=Systematic coarse-graining methods for soft matter simulations – a review |url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/sm/c2sm27201f |journal=Soft Matter |language=en |volume=9 |issue=7 |pages=2108–2119 |doi=10.1039/C2SM27201F |issn=1744-6848}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fritz |first1=Dominik |last2=Harmandaris |first2=Vagelis A. |last3=Kremer |first3=Kurt |last4=van der Vegt |first4=Nico F. A. |date=2009-10-13 |title=Coarse-Grained Polymer Melts Based on Isolated Atomistic Chains: Simulation of Polystyrene of Different Tacticities |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ma901242h |journal=Macromolecules |language=en |volume=42 |issue=19 |pages=7579–7588 |doi=10.1021/ma901242h |s2cid=55425987 |issn=0024-9297}}</ref> and the calculation of [[Kirkwood-Buff solution theory|Kirkwood-Buff integrals]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ganguly |first1=Pritam |last2=van der Vegt |first2=Nico F. A. |date=2013-03-12 |title=Convergence of Sampling Kirkwood–Buff Integrals of Aqueous Solutions with Molecular Dynamics Simulations |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ct301017q |journal=Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation |language=en |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=1347–1355 |doi=10.1021/ct301017q |pmid=26587597 |issn=1549-9618}}</ref> To this end, he works on developing and applying computational tools for multi-scale [[molecular dynamics]] simulations of liquids, polymers, and biological materials. As of May 2022, he has authored more than 170 scientific publications ([[ResearcherID]]: B-3441-2010).<br />
His main research interests center on the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of liquids and soft matter systems. His work includes studies on the physical fundamentals and thermodynamics of aqueous [[solvation]], including [[cosolvent]] and [[Hofmeister series|salt effects]] on the water solubility of macromolecules and the stability of proteins.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hess |first1=Berk |last2=van der Vegt |first2=Nico F. A. |date=2006-09-01 |title=Hydration Thermodynamic Properties of Amino Acid Analogues: A Systematic Comparison of Biomolecular Force Fields and Water Models |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp0641029 |journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry B |language=en |volume=110 |issue=35 |pages=17616–17626 |doi=10.1021/jp0641029 |issn=1520-6106 |pmid=16942107}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=van der Vegt |first1=Nico F. A. |last2=Nayar |first2=Divya |date=2017-11-02 |title=The Hydrophobic Effect and the Role of Cosolvents |journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry B |language=en |volume=121 |issue=43 |pages=9986–9998 |doi=10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b06453 |issn=1520-6106 |pmid=28921974|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ganguly |first1=Pritam |last2=van der Vegt |first2=Nico F. A. |date=2013-03-12 |title=Convergence of Sampling Kirkwood–Buff Integrals of Aqueous Solutions with Molecular Dynamics Simulations |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ct301017q |journal=Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation |language=en |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=1347–1355 |doi=10.1021/ct301017q |issn=1549-9618 |pmid=26587597}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hess |first1=Berk |last2=van der Vegt |first2=Nico F. A. |date=2009-08-11 |title=Cation specific binding with protein surface charges |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=106 |issue=32 |pages=13296–13300 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0902904106 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=2717109 |pmid=19666545 |bibcode=2009PNAS..10613296H |doi-access=free}}</ref> To this end, he works on the development of [[Force field (chemistry)|intermolecular potential models]] and computational methods for atomistic and [[Coarse-grained modeling|coarse-grained]] [[molecular dynamics]] simulations of liquids, polymers, and biological materials.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Brini |first1=Emiliano |last2=Algaer |first2=Elena A. |last3=Ganguly |first3=Pritam |last4=Li |first4=Chunli |last5=Rodríguez-Ropero |first5=Francisco |last6=Vegt |first6=Nico F. A. van der |date=2013-07-31 |title=Systematic coarse-graining methods for soft matter simulations – a review |url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/sm/c2sm27201f |journal=Soft Matter |language=en |volume=9 |issue=7 |pages=2108–2119 |doi=10.1039/C2SM27201F |bibcode=2013SMat....9.2108B |issn=1744-6848}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fritz |first1=Dominik |last2=Harmandaris |first2=Vagelis A. |last3=Kremer |first3=Kurt |last4=van der Vegt |first4=Nico F. A. |date=2009-10-13 |title=Coarse-Grained Polymer Melts Based on Isolated Atomistic Chains: Simulation of Polystyrene of Different Tacticities |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ma901242h |journal=Macromolecules |language=en |volume=42 |issue=19 |pages=7579–7588 |doi=10.1021/ma901242h |bibcode=2009MaMol..42.7579F |issn=0024-9297 |s2cid=55425987}}</ref> ([[ResearcherID]]: B-3441-2010).


== References ==
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* [https://www.cpc.tu-darmstadt.de/cpc/homepage_cpc/index.en.jsp Website Van der Vegt Group]
* [https://www.cpc.tu-darmstadt.de/cpc/homepage_cpc/index.en.jsp Website Van der Vegt Group]
* [https://www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/aktuelles_5/index.de.jsp Website Department of Chemistry TU Darmstadt]
* [https://www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/aktuelles_5/index.de.jsp Website Department of Chemistry TU Darmstadt]
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* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Reu0GooAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Profile]


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Latest revision as of 15:16, 21 August 2024

Nico van der Vegt
Born (1970-11-14) 14 November 1970 (age 54)
Raalte, The Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Twente
Scientific career
Institutions
Doctoral advisorHeiner Strathmann
Other academic advisorsWim Briels, Matthias Wessling, Wilfred F. van Gunsteren
Websitewww.cpc.tu-darmstadt.de

Nico van der Vegt (born 1970 in Raalte) is a Dutch chemist and a professor for computational physical chemistry at Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Academic career

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Van der Vegt studied chemical engineering and received his PhD from the University of Twente in 1998 on a study of methods for calculating thermodynamic and transport properties of small molecules in polymer membranes based on computer simulations.[1] From 1998 to 2002, he was a lecturer at the University of Twente. Following this, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich with Wilfred F. van Gunsteren from 2002 to 2003.[1] He then led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany. In 2009, he was appointed as a full professor for computational physical chemistry at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.[2]

Research

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His main research interests center on the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of liquids and soft matter systems. His work includes studies on the physical fundamentals and thermodynamics of aqueous solvation, including cosolvent and salt effects on the water solubility of macromolecules and the stability of proteins.[3][4][5][6] To this end, he works on the development of intermolecular potential models and computational methods for atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of liquids, polymers, and biological materials.[7][8] (ResearcherID: B-3441-2010).

References

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  1. ^ a b CPC. "Prof. Dr. Nico van der Vegt". CPC – TU Darmstadt. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  2. ^ Chemie. "Professoren Chemie (Einzelansicht)". Chemie – TU Darmstadt (in German). Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  3. ^ Hess, Berk; van der Vegt, Nico F. A. (2006-09-01). "Hydration Thermodynamic Properties of Amino Acid Analogues: A Systematic Comparison of Biomolecular Force Fields and Water Models". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 110 (35): 17616–17626. doi:10.1021/jp0641029. ISSN 1520-6106. PMID 16942107.
  4. ^ van der Vegt, Nico F. A.; Nayar, Divya (2017-11-02). "The Hydrophobic Effect and the Role of Cosolvents". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121 (43): 9986–9998. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b06453. ISSN 1520-6106. PMID 28921974.
  5. ^ Ganguly, Pritam; van der Vegt, Nico F. A. (2013-03-12). "Convergence of Sampling Kirkwood–Buff Integrals of Aqueous Solutions with Molecular Dynamics Simulations". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 9 (3): 1347–1355. doi:10.1021/ct301017q. ISSN 1549-9618. PMID 26587597.
  6. ^ Hess, Berk; van der Vegt, Nico F. A. (2009-08-11). "Cation specific binding with protein surface charges". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (32): 13296–13300. Bibcode:2009PNAS..10613296H. doi:10.1073/pnas.0902904106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2717109. PMID 19666545.
  7. ^ Brini, Emiliano; Algaer, Elena A.; Ganguly, Pritam; Li, Chunli; Rodríguez-Ropero, Francisco; Vegt, Nico F. A. van der (2013-07-31). "Systematic coarse-graining methods for soft matter simulations – a review". Soft Matter. 9 (7): 2108–2119. Bibcode:2013SMat....9.2108B. doi:10.1039/C2SM27201F. ISSN 1744-6848.
  8. ^ Fritz, Dominik; Harmandaris, Vagelis A.; Kremer, Kurt; van der Vegt, Nico F. A. (2009-10-13). "Coarse-Grained Polymer Melts Based on Isolated Atomistic Chains: Simulation of Polystyrene of Different Tacticities". Macromolecules. 42 (19): 7579–7588. Bibcode:2009MaMol..42.7579F. doi:10.1021/ma901242h. ISSN 0024-9297. S2CID 55425987.
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