Martin Gruebele

William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, Professor of Biophysics and Computational Biology, and faculty member at the Beckman Institute

Martin Gruebele's curriculum vitae can be viewed here.

Martin Gruebele received his B.S. degree in 1984, and his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of California at Berkeley. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1992.

Current research interests: fast protein and RNA folding; protein interactions with membranes, nucleic acids, and other proteins; folding spatially resolved in live cells; single molecule absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy; optically assisted scanning tunneling microscopy; vibrational energy flow in molecules; laser spectroscopy and quantum dynamics simulations; control of quantum systems.

Honors and awards: Member, German Academy of Sciences; Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize, von Humboldt Society; Fellow, American Physical Society; Fellow, Biophysical Society; Coblentz Award, Coblentz Society; Dreyfus New Faculty Award; NSF National Young Investigator Award; Packard Fellowship; Cottrell Scholarship; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, A. P. Sloan Fellow; Camille and Henry Dreyfus Fellow; University Scholar; Associate, Center for Advanced Study; NSF Creativity Extension Award; Baker Symposium Lecturer.

Contact Information

Chemistry telephone: 217 333 1624
E-mail: gruebele@scs.uiuc.edu
Fax: 217 244 3186