The Aksimentiev Group

Shu-Han received his B.S. degree in physics from National Taiwan University in 2009. He is currently a PhD candidate in Physics Department and Center for the Physics of Living Cells (CPLC) and is co-advised by Professor Aleksei Aksimentiev (Physics) and Professor Martin Gruebele (Chemistry). His research interests lie at conformational dynamics of macromolecules and how macromolecules, like protein, carbohydrates or DNA, interact with the surrounding environment. He is now using both computational method (Molecular Dynamics simulation, Continuum modeling) and experimental method (fast temperature jump protein refolding, terahertz spectroscopy, circular dichroism spectroscopy) to study 1) PEG-aided stabilization of PEGylated proteins 2) DNA translocation through a solid-state nanopore under plasmonic field.