Derek Van Damme
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e-mail:
vandamm2@illinois.edu
phone:
(217) 721-1774
office:
261 LLP
Loomis Laboratory of Physics
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL
61801-3080
I joined the Aksimentiev group in the Fall of 2013, after joining the physics Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. previously, I studied ZnO photovoltaic nanostructures while earning my B.S. degree in Physics from Michigan Technological University. I was lured away to the field of computational biophysics when I arrived in Illinois, where I used molecular dynamics simulations to study applications of DNA origami.