Martin Gruebele PhD

Dr. Martin Gruebele is James R. Eiszner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, as well as Professor of Physics, and Professor of Biophysics and Computational Biology. He is a physical chemist by training. His research combines experiments, computation and theory to study dynamics of complex systems, ranging from energy flow in organic molecules to protein and RNA dynamics in vitro and in cells, dynamics of surface glasses, single-molecule spectroscopy, and dynamics of locomotion in bacteria and vertebrates.

He was Born in 1964 in Stuttgart, Germany, Gruebele obtained his BS and PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. His postdoctoral work was in the area of femtochemistry with Ahmed Zewail at Caltech. Since 1992, he is on the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1992. He became a US citizen in 2004. He has acted as Chair of the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, edited for the Journal of Physical Chemistry, and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.