Prof. dr. Peter Bolhuis
Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904
PO Box 94157
1090 GD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
room: C2.222
phone: (+31) 20 525 6447
p.g.bolhuis (at) uva.nl
Curriculum Vitae
Peter Bolhuis (1968) is professor of biomolecular systems and soft matter
simulations at the van 't Hoff institute for Molecular
Sciences at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Peter Bolhuis
studied physical chemistry in Utrecht and subsequently did a
PhD with
Daan Frenkel at the FOM-institute for
Atomic en Molecular Physics in Amsterdam. In 1996 he
graduated on the thesis
Liquid-like behaviour in solids, Solid-like behaviour in
liquids from the Universiteit Utrecht. Afterwards he
was a postdoc in the group of
David
Chandler at the university of California at
Berkeley, where he codevelopment the
transition path sampling method. In 1999 received a
two-year research fellowship of the Corpus Christi College
at the university of Cambridge in England. In the group of
Jean Pierre Hansen, he worked on coarse-graining polymer solutions. Since 2001, he is employed at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, first as a FOM tenure tracker, and then in 2006 as a full professor in the Computational Chemistry and Physics group.
In the 2000s Bolhuis initiated his own research line at the University of Amsterdam, in which he began to focus on biomolecular simulations, investigating the protein folding, conformational changes, soft matter self- assembly and nucleation phenomena.
Besides these applications, Bolhuis’ research aims at developing novel simulation methodologies for studying complex (bio)molecular systems.
More recently his research extended to include active systems, protein aggregation and complex chemical networks.
