Christophe JM Chipot CNRS research director Date of

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Christophe Chipot. Curriculum vitæ. April 30, 2010
Christophe J. M. Chipot
C NRS research director
Date of birth: April 26, 1967
Citizenship: Française
Personal address:
47, cours Léopold
54000 Nancy
France
Phone: +33 (0)3-83-35-33-10
Mobile: +33 (0)6-32-45-13-66
Professional address:
Équipe de Dynamique des Assemblages Membranaires
UMR No 7565. Nancy Université — BP 239
54506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France
Phone: +33 (0)3-83-68-40-97
Fax: +33 (0)3-83-68-43-87
E–mail: [email protected] and [email protected]
Web: http://www.edam.uhp-nancy.fr and http://www.ks.uiuc.edu
Biography
I have a background in physical chemistry that I acquired at Nancy Université. I worked on my Ph.D. in
the Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique under the guidance of Bernard Maigret, while being a regular guest
of the group of Harold Scheraga at Cornell University. After defending my doctorate thesis with honors,
cum laude, I joined the group of Peter A. Kollman at the University of California, San Francisco. I subsequently was awarded a research-associate sponsorship by the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. to
work in the group of Andrew Pohorille at the NASA Ames Research Center. In 1996, the C NRS recruited
me at the level of research associate in the Nancy theoretical chemistry group. There, I initiated a new
research theme on the numerical simulations of the biological membrane and its various components.
Concomitant to an activity determinedly oriented towards applications, I developed original approaches
in the field of free-energy calculations within the Gordon-Bell award recipient NAMD program in collaboration with the group of Klaus Schulten at the University of Illinois in Urbana–Champaign. My
developments also extend to the accurate description of intermolecular interactions in numerical simulations, including, for instance, induction phenomena. In 2000, I received my habilitation and was
promoted in 2006 by the C NRS at the level of research director. Since then, I have been heading the
Équipe de Dynamique des Assemblages Membranaires at Nancy Université.
Teaching
◦ Molecular modeling and free energy calculations graduate classes at Nancy Université and at the
Université Denis Diderot, Paris.
◦ Invited lecturer to workshops and summer schools in several foreign countries, e.g. Venezuela,
Norway, Malaysia, Chile.
Conference organization
Co-organizer of five international conferences.
Industrial contracts
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1999–2000: A STRA Z ENECA, Reims, France (P.I.).
1999–2003: AVENTIS, Romainville, France (P.I.).
2005–2008: S ANOFI AVENTIS, Strasbourg, France (consultant).
2006: J OHNSON & J OHNSON, La Jolla, USA (consultant).
2007–2009: S ANOFI AVENTIS, Strasbourg, France (P.I.).
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Christophe Chipot. Curriculum vitæ. April 30, 2010
On–going scientific collaborations
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The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Klaus Schulten).
Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble (Eva Pebay–Peyroula).
Universitat de Barcelona (F. Javier Luque).
Département de Chimie, Nankai University, Tianjin (Cai Wensheng et Shao Xueguang).
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (Tony Lelièvre et Gabriel Stoltz).
IRISA et École Normale Supérieure, Rennes (Erwan Faou).
Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Lyon (François Penin).
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California (Andrew Pohorille).
Universidad de Talca (Fernando Danilo González Nilo).
Scientific publications
76 published articles or in press, 4 submitted, 11 published book chapters and 1 published book. 2,703
citations, h-index 25.
Editorial duties
Associated editor of The Open Structural Biology Journal and PhysMathCentral Biophysics.
Co-editor of two books.
Invited conferences and seminars
32 invited oral presentations in international conferences, 11 national and international meetings and 31
seminars.
Foreign languages
English:
German:
Spanish:
bilingual
proficient
proficient
Classical Arabic:
Mandarin:
beginner
beginner
Funding and distinctions
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P ICS funding from 2009 to 2012 (Beckman Institute, Klaus Schulten).
A RC funding in 2009 (Hybrid).
A NR funding in 2005 (IngeMol), 2006 (TransMit) and 2009 (Megas).
BQR Lorraine Region funding in 2003, 2005 and 2008.
C NRS–U IUC funding from 2003 to 2008 (Beckman Institute, Klaus Schulten).
Funding from the French Embassy in Beijing from 2007 to 2010 (Nankai University, Cai Wensheng).
◦ C NRS bronze medal in 2001.
◦ 1999 Young Researcher award of the Société Française de Chimie.
◦ Mention spéciale of the jury at the 1997 Scientific Film Festival of the C NRS for the movie Folding
and translocation of the undecamer of poly–L–leucine across the water–hexane interface.