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Glen Hocky

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Education

B.S. in Chemistry w/ Honors & B.S. in Mathematics, University of Chicago
Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, Columbia University
Postdoctoral Fellow, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago

Areas of Research/Interest

Theoretical/Computational Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biochemistry. Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Molecular and Coarse-grained Modeling. Free Energy and Enhanced Sampling Methods. Liquids, Glasses, and Disordered Systems.

Fellowships/Honors

ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry
NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Early Career Investigators
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH/NIGMS
Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Selected Publications

(*denotes equal contribution)

Size-and-Shape Space Gaussian Mixture Models for Structural Clustering of Molecular Dynamics Trajectories
Heidi Klem, Glen M. Hocky, and Martin McCullagh
arXiv:2112.11424 (2021)

Assessing models of force-dependent unbinding rates via infrequent metadynamics
Willmor J. Pena Ccoa and Glen M. Hocky
arXiv:2112.03249 (2021)

Natural Language Processing Models That Automate Programming Will Transform Chemistry Research and Teaching
Glen M. Hocky and Andrew D. White
arXiv:2108.13360 (2021)

Molecular paradigms for biological mechanosensing
David Gomez, Willmor J. Pena Ccoa, Yuvraj Singh, Enrique Rojas, and Glen M. Hocky
J. Phys. Chem. B, 125, 44, 12115-12124 (2021)

Total synthesis of colloidal matter.
Theodore Hueckel, Glen M. Hocky, and Stefano Sacanna
Nat. Rev. Mater., available online (2021)

Infinite Switch Simulated Tempering in Force (FISST)
Michael J. Hartmann, Yuvraj Singh, Eric Vanden-Eijnden, and Glen M. Hocky
J. Chem. Phys., CLMD2020, 244120 (2020)

Ionic Solids from Common Colloids
Theodore Hueckel, Glen M. Hocky, Jeremie Palacci, and Stefano Sacanna Nature, 580, 487-490 (2020)

Residue-Level Allostery Propagates Through the Effective Coarse-Grained Hessian
Peter T. Lake, Russell B. Davidson, Heidi Klem, Glen M. Hocky, and Martin McCullagh
J. Chem. Theor. Comput. (16) 5 3385-3395 (2020)

Mechanical and kinetic factors drive sorting of F-actin crosslinkers on bundles
Simon L. Freedman, Cristian Suarez, Jonathan D. Winkelman, David R. Kovar, Gregory A. Voth, Aaron R. Dinner, and Glen M. Hocky
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116 (33) 16192-16197 (2019)

Promoting transparency and reproducibility in enhanced molecular simulations
Massimiliano Bonomi, Giovanni Bussi, Carlo Camilloni, Gareth Tribello, et al (PLUMED Consortium)Nat. Methods 16, 670--673 (2019)