Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicinal Chemistry and of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry July 2002 to present.
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, January 2000 to June 2002.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, July 2000 to present.
Member, Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry.
Senior Fellow, Center for High Performance Computing
Participant, Biological Chemistry Program
Member, U of Utah Information Technology Council
Member, U of Utah Cyberinfrastructure Council

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Biophysics Section, Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.
Advisor: Bernard R. Brooks
March 1997-January 2000.

PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry: "Realistic simulation of nucleic acids in solution"
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California at San Francisco.
Advisor: Peter A. Kollman       (What did I do as a graduate student at ?)
September 1990-March 1997.

Programmer/Analyst
Aiken Computational Laboratory, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
June 1988-August 1990.

B.A. Chemistry (honors)
     Thesis: The structure and Function of the Active Oxygen Intermediate of Cytochrome P450.
     Advisor: Stephen Sontum
B.A. Mathematics and Computer Science
     Senior Project: The Fourier Transform and Applications in Digital Signal Processing
Minor: Personality and Social Psychology
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
March 1989.

Fellowships, Honors and Awards

• One of many recipients of the "Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award" from the American Chemical Society COMP division for outstanding work in computational chemistry, 2007.

• Member, NSF Teragrid Scientific Advisory Board, 2007-present.

• Member, University of Utah Cyberinfrastructure Council, 2007-present.

• Member, NSF CyberInfrastructure User Advisory Committee, 2006-2007.

• Nominated for the College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Teaching Award (2006, 2007).

• Board of Editors, Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, Adenine Press (Editor: R. Sarma, SUNY Albany NY), 2001-present.

• Associate Editor, Molecular Modeling and Computational Chemistry Results, MMCC, Inc. (Editor: D. Busath, BYU), 2004-2005; Assistant Editor 2000-2004.

• Nominated by the University of Utah for the Searle Scholars Program 2002.

• National Research Council Research Associate, March 1997 to December 2000.

• National Science Foundation Travel Award, September 1997 (CECAM).

• Finalist, Computerworld-Smithsonian Awards in the category of Science, 1998.

• DNA simulation research was featured in the 1996 annual report and the 1998 PSC multimedia collection, see http://www.psc.edu/science/Kollman/kollman.html

• UCSF Chancellor's Graduate Research Fellow, September 1995 to June 1996.

• UCSF School of Pharmacy, Frank Goyan Award for Excellence in Achievement in Physical Chemistry, 1995.

• UCSF Dept. Pharmaceutical Chemistry Award for Outstanding Service, 1994-1995.