Personal Data
| Name: | M. Emal Alekozai |
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| Address (private): | Julius-Becker-Str. 11B, D-69181 Leimen, Germany | |
| Address (office): |
Computational Molecular Biophysics Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Speyerer Str. 6, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany | |
| E-mail: |
Emal --AT-- Alekozai --DOT-- com
Emal.Alekozai --AT-- iwr.uni-heidelberg --DOT-- de | |
| Websites: |
http://alekozai.com/emal |
Current Profile
| since 03/2007 |
Ph.D. research in Computer Science (University of Heidelberg) (Computational Molecular Biophysics) Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (Germany) UT/ ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics (USA) |
Awards and Fellowships
| 22 July 2011 | CBSB11 Outstanding Young Researcher Award
(Juelich Research Centre, Germany) (International workshop "From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology 2011" organized by the Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Michgan Tech and the German Research School for Simulation Sciences. Dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Harold Scheraga (Cornell University)) |
| 02-08/2010 | Advanced Short Term Research Opportunity appointment (Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, USA) |
| since 2009 | Heidelberg Graduate School "HGS MathComp" Fellowship, 2009 (Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences) |
Education
| 2000-2006 | University of Heidelberg, Germany (Physics and Computer Science) |
| 8th Jan. 2007 | Diploma (M.Sc.) in Physics |
| 8th Jan. 2007 | Certificate in Computer science |
| 1997-2000 | Technical Gymnasium (high school), Heidelberg, Germany Major courses: engineering (electrical and mechanical), physics |
| 21th June 2000 | High school graduation (Abitur, allgemeine Hochschulreife), |
Civilian National Service
| 11/1999-11/2005 | Disaster control service, fire department Sandhausen |
Work Experiences
| since Nov. 2010 | Research and Development at VMS AG (SAP benchmarking) |
| 02/2010-08/2010 | Scientific assistant at the Center for Molecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA |
| since March 2007 | Scientific assistant at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| 04/2003-10/2005 | Scientific assistant at the Faculty for Physics and Astronomie and the Faculty for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| 06/2002-03/2003 | Scientific assistant at the Institute for Computer Science, Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| 07/2000-09/2000 | IT support at InterComponentWare AG, Walldorf, Germany |
| 10/2000-05/2002 | Software developer at InterComponentWare AG, Walldorf, Germany Reference from InterComponentWare AG (german)
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Teaching Experiences
| 21-25th Feb. 2011 | Assistant in the "Practical: Computer Modelling of Proteins" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Winter 2006/07 | Assistant in the "Practical: Computer Modelling of Proteins" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Summer 2005 | Tutor "Informatics 2 (Introduction to Technical Computer Science)" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Winter 2004/05 | Assistant in the "Physics beginners lab course for medical students" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Summer 2004 | Tutor "Informatics 2 (Introduction to Technical Computer Science)" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Winter 2003/04 | Tutor "Informatics 1 (Programming and software engineering)" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Summer 2003 | Assistant in the "Physics beginners lab course for physicist" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Summer 2003 | Tutor "Informatics 2 (Introduction to Technical Computer Science)" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Winter 2002/03 | Teaching assistant "Introduction to Computer and Network Security" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
Scientific Visits
| 11/2011 | Visiting researcher "Center for Molecular Biophysics", Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) |
| 02/2010-08/2010 | Visiting researcher "Center for Molecular Biophysics", Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) |
| 03/2009-06/2009 | Visiting researcher "Center for Molecular Biophysics", Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) |
| 07/2008-08/2008 | Visiting researcher "Center for Molecular Biophysics", Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) |
| 06/2008-07/2008 | Visiting researcher DFG Research Center "MATHEON- Mathematics for key technologies" (FU Berlin, Germany) |
| 02/2008-03/2008 | Visiting researcher "Center for Molecular Biophysics", Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) |
| 06/2007-07/2007 | Visiting researcher DFG Research Center "MATHEON- Mathematics for key technologies" (FU Berlin, Germany) |
Conferences and Workshops
| 14/11/2011 | Oral presentation: Center for Molecular Biophysics (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), "Enhanced Sampling of Cellulose Cel7A with Cellulose Iβ Crystal Model" |
| 08/09/2011 | Oral presentation: SciDAC Telephone Conference (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), "Brownian dynamics of Cel7A" |
| 16/08/2011 | Oral presentation: SciDAC Telephone Conference (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cornell University, University of Michigan), "Interaction of Cellulase Cel7A CBM on the Surface of the Cellulose Iβ Crystal Model" |
| 20-22/07/2011 | Oral presentation: From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology 2011 (Juelich Research Centre, Germany), outstanding young researcher award talk "Multilevel Enhanced Sampling of Cellulose-Cellulase Interaction" (International workshop organized by the Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Michgan Tech and the German Research School for Simulation Sciences. Dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Harold Scheraga (Cornell University)) |
| 07-10/07/2010 | Poster: Computational and Experimental Challenges (Oak Ridge, USA), "Cellulose Cellulase Interaction Hotspots" |
| 10-13/05/2010 | OLCF/ NICS Gray Hex-core Supercomputer Workshop and User Meeting (Oak Ridge, USA) |
| 16/04/2010 | Oral presentation: SciDAC Telephone Conference (Oak Ridge, USA), "Markov State Models for Cellulose-Cellulase System" |
| 20-24/02/2010 | Oral presentation: Biophysical Society 54. Annual Meeting 2010 (San Francisco, USA), platform session talk "Analysis of the Cellulose-Cellulase Interaction" (conference attracts ~6000 scientists around the world) |
| 15-17/07/2009 | Model Based Parameter Estimation Theory and Application (IWR, Heidelberg) |
| 25/07/2009 | Modellierungstag Rhein-Neckar (HGS MathComp, Innovation Lab) |
| 07-10/10/2008 | Oral presentation: Methods of Molecular Simulation 2008 (IWR, Heidelberg) "Enhanced Sampling via Markov State Models, Error Estimation" |
| 18-20/04/2008 | Poster: Computer Simulation And Theory of Macromolecules 2008 (Hünfeld) "Enhanced Sampling via Markov State Models" |
| 08-12/10/2007 | 19. Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days (Heidelberg) |
| 17-21/09/2007 | 13th Czech-French-German Conference on Optimization (IWR, Heidelberg) |
| 24-26/09/2007 | Oral and poster presentation: Methods of Molecular Simulation 2007 (IWR, Heidelberg) "Introduction to Molecular Dynamics Simulations" "Enhanced Smapling via Dirichlet Distributions" |
| 20-22/04/2007 | Poster: Computer Simulation And Theory of Macromolecules 2007(Hünfeld) "Protein Dynamics in D2O and H2O" |
| 20-22/09/2006 | Methods of Molecular Simulation 2007 (IWR, Heidelberg) |
Computing Skills
| Programming languages: | Java, C/ C++, Perl, Phyton, XML |
| Web based programming: | PHP, X/HTML, CSS, JavaScript |
| Database programming: | SQL *Plus, SQLite,Oracle, MySql |
| Application software: | R, Matlab/ Octave, Mathematica |
| Computational chemistry: | CHARMM, GROMACS, NAMD, PyMOL, VMD |
| System administration: | Workstations and clusters |
| Miscellaneous: | Linux (Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux and Red Hat), Windows |
Interests and other Informations
| Languages: | Dari (mother tongue), German (fluent), English (fluent), French (basics) |
| Hobbies: | Kung fu, cooking, gardening |
