Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg



Heinrich Klein

Research Interests

    • Statistical Physics
    • Stochastic processes
    • Protein and Virus Self-Assembly
    • Complex Networks
    • Renewable Energies

Short Vita

    Since February 2015
    Postdoc at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Heidelberg, in the group of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz
    February 2011-February 2015
    PhD at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Heidelberg, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz
    July 2010
    Diploma in Physics at the University of Heidelberg.
    2009/2010
    Four months research stay at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the course of the Diploma Thesis.
    2005-2010
    Studies of physics at the University of Heidelberg
    2004
    Four months stay in Australia
    2004
    Abitur at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Gundelfingen

List of publications

    • Marvin A. Boettcher*, Heinrich C. R. Klein* and Ulrich S. Schwarz (* Equal contributors).
      Role of dynamic capsomere supply for viral capsid self-assembly.
      Physical Biology , 12:016014 , 2015. (Journal website , PDF, arXiv)
    • Heinrich C. R. Klein and Ulrich S. Schwarz.
      Studying protein assembly with reversible Brownian dynamics of patchy particles.
      The Journal of Chemical Physics 140: 184112 , 2014. ( Journal website, PDF, arXiv)
    • Johanna E. Baschek*, Heinrich C. R. Klein*, and Ulrich S. Schwarz (* Equal contributors).
      Stochastic dynamics of virus capsid formation: Direct versus hierarchical self-assembly.
      BMC Biophysics, 5:22, 2012. ( Journal website, PDF, arXiv)
    • Heinrich C. R. Klein, Xiaolin Cheng, Jeremy C. Smith and Tongye Shen.
      Transfer matrix approach to the hydrogen-bonding in cellulose Iα fibrils describes the recalcitrance to thermal deconstruction.
      The Journal of Chemical Physics, 135(8):085106, 2011. ( Journal website)

Conferences and contributions

Teaching activities

    • Summer term 2009 and 2011, Tutorial on Theoretical Mechanics II (Bachelor Course), University of Heidelberg,
    • Winter term 2011/2012, Tutorial on Stochastic Dynamics (Master Course), University of Heidelberg,
    • Winter term 2011/2012, Tutorial on Theoretical Statistical Physics (Master Course), University of Heidelberg,

PhD Thesis

"Simulating the reversible assembly of protein complexes with well-defined geometries"
The Thesis has been carried out at Institute for Theoretical Physics , Heidelberg (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schwarz

Diploma Thesis

"The hydrogen bond network in cellulose Iα studied by means of a transfer matrix"
The Thesis has been carried out at Computational Molecular Biophysics Group in the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jeremy C. Smith and in close collaboration with Dr. Tongye Shen and Dr. Xiaolin Cheng from the Center for Molecular Biophysics at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge (USA)

Stipends

Address

Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Philosophenweg 19
Room 013
69120 Heidelberg, Germany

email: heinrich.klein at bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
phone: +49-(0)6221-54-9434
www: http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~biophys
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