OBJECTIVE
Position as a computational chemist in drug design at a large pharmaceutical company in the U.S.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Chemist: Computer Chemie Centrum, Erlangen, Germany (May 2003-present).
• Developed QSAR/QSPR models using molecular surface properties.
• MD simulations of tau protein fragment self-assembly.
• Support Vector Machine Training for prediction of phospholipidosis induction (with Pfizer Ltd., Global Research & Development, Sandwich Labs, UK).
• Prediction of protein-ligand binding energies with surface descriptors.
• Neural network training for the discrimination of drug-like molecules (with 4SC AG, Martinsried, Germany).

Research/Teaching Assistant: The University of Alabama in Huntsville (Aug. 1997- Dec. 2001).
• Frontier MO ab initio calculations of natural products as potential DNA intercalators.
• Partial synthesis of dihydroputranjivic acid.
• General inorganic and organic laboratory instructor.
• Instruction in the use of FT/IR, UV/Vis, GC, column chromatography, and computational techniques.

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
Program packages: Tsar, Statistica, SYBYL, gromacs, Parasurf, VAMP, Spartan/Titan, Gaussian, AutoDock, Matlab, MS Office, Axum, Corel Suite. Linux, Irix, c-shell, Perl, and Python scripting, Fortan, HTML, Windows 3.1-XP, MacOS.

EDUCATION
• Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in organic chemistry: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg (2007).
• Master of Science in chemistry: The University of Alabama in Huntsville (2001).
• Bachelor of Science in chemistry: The University of Alabama in Huntsville (1993).

INTERESTS
Music performance and recording, playing guitar, reading, cooking and food, beer-making, motorcycling, gardening.