Steve Whitelam

Staff Scientist Theory Facility, Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Research interests

I use statistical mechanics and machine learning to study thermally driven, nonequilibrium phenomena such as molecular self-assembly and thermodynamic computing.

Education

2004 Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Linacre College, University of Oxford. Supervised by Juan P. Garrahan and David Sherrington.

2001 MPhys, Trinity College, University of Oxford.

1991–1997 Dunblane High School, Dunblane, Scotland.

Previous positions

2007–2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Systems Biology Centre, University of Warwick. Supervised by Nigel Burroughs.

2004–2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley. Supervised by Phillip L. Geissler.

Papers

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Group members

Dr. Dina Mirijanian (2009–2012)
Developed an atomistic forcefield for peptoid polymers.
Dr. Lester Hedges (2010–2014)
Worked on fundamental aspects of self-assembly and nucleation.
Dr. Tom Haxton (2010–2015)
Worked on fundamental aspects of protein crystallization, self-assembly at surfaces, and peptoid assembly.
Dr. Ranjan Mannige (2012–2016)
Worked on the self-assembly of peptoid nanomaterials and metal-organic frameworks.
Dr. Joyjit Kundu (2014–2017)
Worked on the dynamics of carbon capture within solid frameworks.
Dr. Zdenek Preisler (2016–2019)
Worked on molecular self-assembly at surfaces and gas capture in metal-organic frameworks.
Dr. John Edison (2015–2018)
Worked on gas capture in metal-organic frameworks and the self-assembly of peptoid nanomaterials.
Dr. Katie Klymko (2013–2018)
Worked on pattern formation and rare events in driven and growing systems.
Dr. Katie Deeg (2014–2019)
Worked on the nucleation of metal-organic frameworks.
Dr. Sang-Won Park (2019–2021)
Worked on gas capture and the dynamics of neural-network learning.

Code

Dina Mirijanian developed an atomistic forcefield for peptoids, MFTOID.
Tom Haxton developed a coarse-grained peptoid model, MF-CG-TOID-MC.
Lester Hedges' vmmc.xyz is a C++ library for virtual-move Monte Carlo simulations of interacting particles.

Miscellaneous

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