Marc Baaden

Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, CNRS - UPR 9080
13, rue Pierre et Marie Curie
F-75005 Paris
France
Tel.: +33 1 58 41 51 76
Mail: baaden@ibpc.fr
URL: http://www.baaden.ibpc.fr

Professional Goal

Study of biological and chemical phenomena via theoretical methods based on physical chemistry and leading to an understanding of processes at the atomic scale. At the same time I try to keep a close contact to experiment and take advantage of novel approaches such as virtual reality.

Education

• European PhD Thesis in theoretical chemistry (molecular dynamics), November 2000, Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), Strasbourg, France and Ecole Polytechnique (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, conducted by Prof. Georges Wipff and Prof. Michel Burgard (Strasbourg) including a 3 months stay in Prof. Wilfred van Gunsteren's group (Zürich): 'synergistic effects in liquid-liquid ion extraction.'
• Diploma thesis ("DEA") in physical chemistry, September 1997, Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), Strasbourg, France, specialty: spectroscopic methods, directed by Prof. Pierre Granger and Prof. Alain Strich: 'Ab initio calculation of NMR chemical shielding tensors.'
• Degree in chemical engineering , June 1997, Ecole européenne des Hautes études de l'Industrie Chimique de Strasbourg (EHICS), Strasbourg, France, Tri-lingual curriculum (French, English, German) in chemistry, specialty: material science.
• Degree ('Diplom-Vorprüfung') in chemistry, April 1994, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• German school leaving examination ('Abitur') , June 1991, Einstein grammar school of Kehl, Germany, Bilingual curriculum (German/French).

Research

Chargé de Recherche de 1ère classe with Prof. Ph. Derreumaux at CNRS Paris (Since 2007)

Chargé de Recherche de 2ème classe with Dr R. Lavery at CNRS Paris (2003 - 2006, 4 years)

EC Research Fellow with Prof. M.S.P. Sansom at Oxford University (GB) (2001 - 2002, 2 years)

PhD student with Prof. G. Wipff and Prof. M. Burgard, France (1997 - 2000, 3 years)

Research internship with Prof. W. F. van Gunsteren, Switzerland (2000, 3 months)

Diploma work with Prof. P. Granger and Prof. A. Strich, Strasbourg, France (1997, 6 months)

Publications

• 41 publications, 38 poster presentations, 54 talks, 2 software libraries.

Supervision

• 17 research students, 4 post-doctoral fellows, 4 PhD student, 4 engineers.

Organisation

• 1 international + 1 national conference, 1 international summer school, 1 open day

Peer review

• JACS, Angewandte, Chemistry, Proteins, Biophys J, PCCP and others (~25 per year)

Fellowships

• ERASMUS grant by the European Union, Bruxelles in 1994
• PhD fellowship by the French Ministry for Research (26 kEuro, 1998-2000)
• Marie Curie fellowship by the EU (114 kEuro, 2001-2003)

Grants

• FonFlon, 2006 to 2009, 153 kEuro, Structural fluctuations in enzymes
• FlowVRNano, 2008 to 2010, 223 kEuro, Virtual reality molecular simulations
• BioPac, 2010 to 2014, 132 kEuro, Fuel cell modeling
• Nico_chimera, 2011 to 2014, tba, Nicotinic receptor homologues

Important scientific contributions

• Recognized for my expertise on outer membrane proteins. Contributed to the elucidation of an open pore structure of an ion channel close to the human nicotinic receptor.

Teaching

Lecturer mainly at Université Denis Diderot, Paris 7 (~40 h p.a.) (2003-2008)

'Vacataire', then teaching assistant Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (196 h) (1998-99)

'Vacataire' Ecole de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, Strasbourg (104 h) (1997/98)

Academic Community Related Activity

• Co-organiser of the "Bio-Image summer school", Paris, July 2005. - http://www.ecole2005.ibpc.fr/
  
• Co-organiser of the "Biomolecular Simulations" conference, Bordeaux, September 2005
  
• Scientific secretary of the French "Comité National" of the CNRS
  
• Member of the user committee of the national IDRIS supercomputer center
  
• Co-author of the book "Itinéraires Bis" to appear at Connaissances et Savoirs in 2009
  

Distinctions and Affiliations

• EHICS Excellence award, Strasbourg, France
  
• Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de conférences (section 31)
  
• Thesis award by the Conseil Scientifique de l'ULP, Strasbourg, France
  
• Young researcher award by the Groupe de Graphisme et Modélisation Moléculaire in 2003
  
• Member of the 'Gesellschaft deutscher Chemiker' and of the 'Société Française de Chimie'
  
• Member of the Biophysical Society
  

Language skills

• French, German - bilingual.
• English - written, read and spoken fluently (TOEIC score 945, 23 years of practice).
• Japanese - basic skills (4 months introductory class in Japan).

Computer and IT skills

Operating systems

• Linux, Mac OSX, Unix, Windows.

Networks

• TCP/IP (ftp, http, mail), Microsoft, Appletalk.

Programming

• Objective-C/C, Fortran, Perl, Python and other

Molecular Modeling

• Gromacs, Yasara, NAMD, Amber, Gromos, Gaussian, Spartan, Macromodel.

Other

• What If, Modeller, VMD, VTK, R, XML, Docbook, LaTeX.

Databases

• PDB, CCDB, Beilstein, bibliographic (PubMed, ISI, CC, SCI, ...).

Internet

• Website design for the university, a sports club and for personal and professional purposes.

Other information

Activities

• Aïkido and Martial Arts (25 years of practice, black belt).
• Music (6 years of piano).

Traveling

• Europe (A, B, CH, D, E, F, GB, GR, H, I, NL, PL, TR), Africa (MA), Asia (Japan) and USA.