Personal Description and Curriculum Vitae

Marko Schreiber

Age: 33

Characterisation

During my Ph.D.-studentship I had the opportunity to gather

a lot of experience as a researcher on excited state calculations

of molecules. My expertise concerns the use of high level

ab initio quantum chemical methods (CASSCF, CASPT2)

to describe the electronically excited states spectral proper-

ties of the retinal protonated Schiff-base chromophore and

its environment in rhodopsin and other chromophoric sys-

tems (polyenes, cyanine dyes and polyenyl cations). In ad-

dition I utilised a plenty of other methods like CIS, DFT and

QM/MM.

I was responsible for administrative duties that involved the

supervision of the local network and servers, the adaptation

and modification of quantum chemical software to high per-

formance computers, teaching and programming. I have been an

active member of the research group "Molecular Mechanisms

of Retinal Protein Action" founded by the German Research

Council (DFG) where I successfully cooperate with the partic-

ipating projects.

Professional Positions

From 01/2000 - 10/2004

Research associate in the Theoretical Chemistry group of

Prof. V. Buß, University of Duisburg-Essen, supported by

grants of the German Research Council (DFG):

(i) "Non-empirical calculations of the excited states of chiral

dyes with CASPT2" (successfully completed)

(ii) "Molecular Mechanisms of Retinal Protein Action"

Since 11/2004

Post doc in the group of Prof. J. Manz,

Institut für Chemie und Biochemie

Freie Universität Berlin, supported by SFB 450

Education

12/1999 Chemistry - Dipl.-Chem.

Diploma Thesis: "The excited states of Z-configurated poly-

methine dyes"

2/2004 Chemistry - Dr. rer. nat.

Doctoral Thesis: "High-correlated wave functions for the cal-

culation of the excited states of cationic dyes"

Teaching Experience and Professional Development

Courses:

Basics in theoretical chemistry I & II (Uni Duisburg)

Applied theoretical chemistry (Uni Duisburg/FU-Berlin)

Lectures:

Quantum Chemistry (FU-Berlin)

Conferences/Talks

"Modeling Interactions in Biomolecules II"

Prague, September 5th – 9th, 2005

Talk: "Ground and excited state properties of non-complementary metal--DNA base pairs "

Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Prof. W. Thiel)

Mülheim, June 21st, 2006

Talk: "CASPT2 calculations of excited states in biomolecules"

Conferences/Posters

25. - 29. August 1999, Mierki, Poland

14. - 19. September 2000, Szeged, Hungary

Poster presentation: "Ab initio calculations of the optical properties of cyanine dyes"

20. - 24. August 2002, Seattle, U.S.A.

Poster presentation: "Ab initio calculations on retinal model chromophores including

effects of the protein environment"

20. - 24. June 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany

Poster presentation: "Exploring the opsin shift with ab initio

methods: Geometry and counterion effects on the electronic spectrum of retinal"

"Computational Tools for Molecules, Clusters and Nanostructures"

23-26 January 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany

Poster presentation: "Interactions of DNA bases and non-complementary DNA

Poster presentation: "Ab initio study of metalated non-complementary DNA base pairs"

Poster presentation: "Structural determination of metalated non-complementary DNA base pairs in gas phase: a theoretical prediction"
 
 

Satelite meeting XIIth, International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, (ICQC),

"Chemical Accuracy and Beyond"

May 17-19. 2006, Tokyo, organized by K. Hirao, K. Takatsuka, K. Yamashita

Poster presentation: "Excited state properties of non-complementary
metal--DNA base pairs"

 

Language Competences

mother tongue German

second English (excellent reading, writing and communication skills)

Electronic Data Processing

system software UNIX (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, IRIX), MacOS, Windows

languages Fortran 77 & 90, shell-scripts, HTML

fice, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office