Curriculum Vitae
of Józef Adam Liwo
Scientist ID in the Polish system (OPI): 34179
ORCID: 0000-0001-6942-2226
Current positions:
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Full Professor and Head of Laboratory of Molecular Modeling, Faculty of
Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk,
Poland.
·
KIAS Scholar, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Rep. of Korea.
Education, scientific degrees and titles:
·
2001: Professor of
Chemical Sciences (title received from the President of the Republic of Poland
after approval by the Central Committee for Scientific Degrees and Titles).
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1997: Habilitation
(Physical and Theoretical Chemistry) Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
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1989: PhD (Physical
and Theoretical Chemistry) Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry Chemistry, University of Gdańsk,
Poland.
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1983: MSc
(Chemistry, with honors) Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry,
University of Gdańsk, Poland. The curriculum included
extended program in math.
Training:
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1990-1992, 1994,
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University (supervisor: H.A. Scheraga).
Employment:
·
1983-present
Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk; tenured
full professor since 2001; member of the Faculty Council since 1997; director
of the Laboratory of Molecular Modeling since 1999.
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2014-present:
Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul, Republic of Korea; KIAS
Scholar.
·
2003-2010 Senior
Research Associate, Dep. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
(H.A. Scheraga group).
·
2001-2003 Vice-Director
for Scientific Affairs, Academic Computer Center in Gdańsk,
TASK.
·
several short-term
employments on the visiting-scientist or visiting professor basis (Cornell
University (USA), Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (USA), SUNY Upstate Medical
Center (USA), University of Uppsala (Sweden), Beijing Institute of Technology
(P.R. China) in years 1993-2015.
Organizational
activity:
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1998-present –
Member of the Interdisciplinary Team of Mathematical Modeling at the Academic
Computer Center in Gdańsk, TASK.
·
1998-2001 –
President of the Scientific Council of the Academic Computer Center in Gdańsk, TASK.
·
Co-organizer of 6
international conferences.
Professional Memberships:
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2008-present: Member of
the American Chemical Society.
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2009-present: Member of
the Biophysical Society.
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2015-present: Member of
the Polish Chemical Society.
·
2003-present: Member of
the Scienfitic Society of Gdańsk.
·
2001-prsent: Member of
the Polish Society of Computer Simulation.
·
2012-2015 Member of
the Committee of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Honors and Awards:
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2016 - medal of the Polish Committee of National Education.
·
2015 – Travel Award from Biophysical Society (presented on 59th
National Biophysical Societ Meeting in Baltimore)
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2013 – “Mistrz” (Master) subsidy for
distinguished professors from the Foundation from Polish Science.
·
2013, 2006, 1999, 1993 - award from the Rector of the
University of Gdansk for distinguished research.
·
2012 – Elected a member of the Committee of Biochemistry and
Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
·
2001, 1995, 1989 - Award as a team member from the
Polish Minister of Education;
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1998 – individual award from the Polish Minister of Education.
Publications:
245 original papers published, and 10 review articles,
7 original papers and 2 review articles in non-ISI journals, 12 book chapters, editor
of 1 book. Number of citations excluding self-citations: 4834. H-index: 43.
Five most
relevant publications in the last 5 years:
1. A. Liwo, A. K. Sieradzan,
A. G. Lipska, C. Czaplewski, I. Joung,
W. Żmudzińska, A. Hałabis, S. Ołdziej.
A general method for the derivation of the functional
forms of the effective energy terms in coarse-grained energy functions of
polymers. III. Determination of scale-consistent backbone-local and correlation
potentials in the UNRES force field and force-field calibration and validation.
J.
Chem. Phys., 2019, 150, 155104
2. A.K. Sieradzan, M. Makowski, A. Augustynowicz, A. Liwo. A general method for the derivation of the functional forms of the
effective energy terms in coarse-grained energy functions of polymers. I.
Backbone potentials of coarse-grained polypeptide chains. J. Chem. Phys., 2017,
146, 124106 (corresponding author).
3. A. Karczyńska, C. Czaplewski, P. Krupa, M. Mozolewska, K. Joo, J. Lee, A.
Liwo. Ergodicity and model quality
in template-restrained canonical and temperature/Hamiltonian replica exchange coarse-grained
molecular dynamics simulations of proteins. J.
Comput. Chem., 2017, 38, 2730–27 (corresponding author).
4.
M.A. Mozolewska,
P. Krupa, B. Zaborowski, A. Liwo, J.
Lee, K. Joo, C. Czaplewski.
Use of restraints from consensus
fragments of multiple server models to enhance protein structure prediction capability
of the UNRES force field. J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2016,
56, 2263-2279
(corresponding author).
5. B. Zaborowski, D. Jagieła, C. Czaplewski, A. Hałabis, A. Lewandowska, W. Żmudzińska, S. Ołdziej, A. Karczyńska, C. Omieczynski,
T. Wirecki, A.
Liwo. A maximum-likelihood
approach to force-field calibration. J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2015, 55, 2050–2070 (corresponding
author).
Research
interests: coarse graining, molecular dynamics algorithms,
statistical mechanics, generalized-ensemble sampling, molecular modeling, quantum
mechanics, chemometry.
Research
support (with role as PI): currently 1
research grant from Polish National Science Center (NCN), 5 major grants from
the Polish government in years 1996-2017, Mistrz
subsidy from the Foundation for Polish Science (2014-2016), 2 Collaborative
Linkage Grants (CLG) from NATO (1999-2004), several small grants to support
graduate students.
Teaching and mentoring: Present: 1 obligatory course (Theoretical
Chemistry; course director) for M.Sc. students, 2 courses for Chemistry majors
(Numerical Methods in Chemistry and Programming in C and FORTRAN), 2 lectures
for graduate students (Protein Structure and Energetics and Molecular
Simulations in Chemistry). In the past: General and Inorganic Chemistry lab and
recitation classes (as T.A.), Informatics in Chemistry (lectures and lab
classes), Molecular Modeling (lectures and lab classes).
11 graduate students, 11
undergraduate students and 1 postdoc mentored.