Vivek Sharma

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

and

Institute of Biotechnology (HiLIFE)

University of Helsinki

FINLAND

vivek.sharma[AT]helsinki.fi

vivek.viv.sharma[AT]gmail.com

Academic Education

*    Doctoral degree (2012), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

*    Masters degree (2007), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

*    Bachelors degree (2003), Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India.

All publications

See here :

Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G4xsLQ0AAAAJ&hl=en

Funding

Academy of Finland, Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation, University of Helsinki, Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation

Current teaching

* QM and QM/MM modeling

* Structural Biology and Biophysics (multi-scale computational approaches)

* Modeling of Biological systems by classical simulation approaches

* Nanophysics and nanochemistry

* Introduction to nanoscience

Research interests

* Molecular dynamics simulations, density functional theory, continuum electrostatics, free-energy calculations, QM-MM (simulations), homology modeling, multiple sequence alignment, statistical mechanics, entropy, evolution, electron transfer, protein-ligand docking, proton transfer, membrane proteins, respiratory chain, electron transfer chain, complex I, NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase, complex III, cytochrome bc1, complex IV, cytochrome c oxidase, complex V, ATP-synthase, electron coupled proton transfer, proton coupled electron transfer, mitochondrial dysfunctions, mitochondrial proteins.