The Homepage of Hannes H. Löffler

Welcome to the homepage of Hannes Löffler.

I am currently working for the Science and Technology Facilities Council at Daresbury Laboratory, UK in the Computational Biology Group.

I previously worked as a research fellow in Assoc. Prof. Akio Kitao's Laboratory of Molecular Design (Center for Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Japan).

Research

My current position is as a Computational Scientist in the Computational Biology Group at Daresbury Laboratory. Here I am researching membrane receptor systems, e.g. the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and Her/ErbB family, with atomic–level and coarse–grained MD simulations.

My reasearch at the University of Tokyo concentrated on the dynamics of proteins in solution. In particular, we are interested in collective motions and hydration of the biopolymer studied by atomic–level MD simulations and explicit water models.

During my PhD, and during my postdoc studies at Nagoya University I investigated ions in aqueous solution by means of conventional MD and a combined QM/MM–MD method to gain new insights into structure and (exchange) dynamics.

I obtained my PhD in chemistry from the Leopold–Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria. My speciality is computational chemistry/theoretical chemistry. In my research I use force field methods, molecular dynamics, ab initio, and DFT methods.

For more details please see my list of publications. You can also find my profile on LinkedIn.

Computers

I have been using computers since the mid 1980s. I have learned most of what I know about computers today by myself. Since my time as a graduate student I have been administrating mostly Unix systems and programmed both within (e.g. our own QM/MM–MD simulation program) and outside of the academic field.