Prof. Dr. Matthias Ullmann
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair/ Bioinformatics/Structural Biology
Job History
| 10/2003 – present | Professor Structural Biology/Bioinformatics, University of Bayreuth |
| 01/2001 – 09/2003 | Group Leader in the Emmy-Noether Program of the DFG at the Chair for Computational Molecular Biophysics at the IWR of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
Education
| 01/1999 –12/2000 | Postdoc at The Scripps Research Instiute in the group of Prof. David A. Case in collaboration with Prof. Louis Noodlemann and Prof. Donald Bashford |
| 12/1998 | Ph. D. at the Department of Chemistry of the Free University Berlin |
| 1996 – 1998 | Ph. D. study at the Free University Berlin in the group of Prof. E. W. Knapp (Theoretical and Computational Molecular Biophysics) |
| 1994 – 1995 | Diploma thesis at the Free University Berlin in the group of Prof. E. W. Knapp (Theoretical and Computational Molecular Biophysics) |
| 1990 – 1995 | Studies of Biochemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and at the University Witten/Herdecke |
Awards and other responsibilities
| Since 2013 | Mitglied des Gutachter Pannel “Sciences Exactes et Naturelles-1” (SEN-1) des Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS |
| Since 2010 | Member of the international scientific board of the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH) |
| 2001 – 2003 | Groupleader in the Emmy-Noether Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
| 1999 – 2000 | Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
| 1996 – 1998 | Ph. D. Scholar of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds |
| 1991 – 1995 | Scholar of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung) |
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair/ Bioinformatics/Structural Biology
In our research, we investigate the function of proteins involved in various biological energy transduction pathways. Many of these proteins are metalloproteins or cofactor-containing proteins. To study these proteins and processes, we apply a variety of theoretical methods including continuum electrostatics calculations, molecular dynamics simulations and quantum chemical calculations. Moreover, we develop methods to analyze and simulate the energetics and kinetics of charge and exciton transfer processes. Our work is at the interface of theoretical biophysics and biochemistry, bioinformatics and computational biology, bioinorganic chemistry, and structural biology
- Docking of Electron Transfer Proteins
- Understanding the Protonation and Redox Behavior of Proteins
- Kinetics of Charge and Exciton Transfer in Proteins
- Density Functional Calculations of Enzyme Mechanisms
- Effect of Membrane Potentials on Proteins
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair/ Bioinformatics/Structural Biology
Prof. Dr. Matthias Ullmann
Department of Chemistry
University of Bayreuth
Universitätsstrasse 30
95447 Bayreuth
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-3545
E-mail: ullmann@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: Computational Biochemistry Group