Paul J. Gans

B.S., Ohio State University

Ph.D., Case Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral research, University of Illinois, Urbana

Theoretical chemistry: determination of conforma-tional and thermodynamic properties of macromolecules by Monte Carlo simulation

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching (1997, 1998, 2010)

Gans, P. J. Review of statistical mechanics: Fundamentals and modern applications, JACS 120: 11026, 1998.

Lyu, P. C., P. J. Gans, and N. R. Kallenbach. Energetic contribution of solvent-exposed ion pairs to alpha-helix structure, J. Mol. Biol. 223: 343-350, 1992.

Gans, P. J., et al. (N. R. Kallenbach). The helix-coil transition in heteroge-neous peptides with specific side-chain interactions: Theory and comparison with CD spectral data, Biopolymers 31: 1605-1614, 1991.