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Nico van der Vegt
Born (1970-11-14) 14 November 1970 (age 54)
Raalte, The Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Twente
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Molecular dynamics simulations of sorption and diffusion in rubbery and glassy polymers  (1998)
Doctoral advisorWim Briels, Heiner Strathmann

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

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.[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 (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich), Switzerland with Prof. Dr. Wilfred 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]

His main research interests are in computational soft matter, particularly in understanding the thermodynamics and physical fundamentals of aqueous solvation, including Hofmeister ion chemistry and cosolvent effects.[3][4][5] His work also includes major development efforts to coarse-grained modeling of soft matter systems[6][7] and the calculation of Kirkwood-Buff integrals.[8] 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).

References

  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. ^ 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.0902904106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2717109. PMID 19666545.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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. doi:10.1039/C2SM27201F. ISSN 1744-6848.
  7. ^ 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. doi:10.1021/ma901242h. ISSN 0024-9297. S2CID 55425987.
  8. ^ 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.
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