Handbook of Coarse-Grained and Multiscale Modeling of Soft Matter From the Fundamentals to Scientific and Industrial Applications

Valeriy V. Ginzburg is a Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, USA, and Founder of VVG Physics Consulting LLC. He received his Ph. D. in Polymer Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia) in 1992, and subsequently worked as a postdoc at the University of Colorado and the University of Pittsburgh. From 2001 to 2020, he was a staff researcher in The Dow Chemical Company (now Dow, Inc.), retiring in 2020 as a Senior Research Scientist. Valeriy is a physicist with expertise in theoretical polymer and materials science. In his work, he uses the power of computer simulations to help develop new advanced materials. He has authored or co-authored nearly 100 publications, including several papers in Science, Physical Review, Progress in Polymer Science, and other prestigious journals, as well as 10 book chapters. He has previously co-edited the book, Theory and Modeling of Polymer Nanocomposites (Springer, 2021). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of several Dow internal awards.

Józef Adam Liwo is a Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Modeling, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry University of Gdansk, Poland. A theoretical chemist by education, he received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Gdansk, habilitation in 1997 and the title of professor in 2001. He completed his postdoc in Cornell University in 1990-1992 and 1994-1995 under the mentorship of Professor Harold A. Scheraga. His research is focused on physics-based coarse-grained models of biological macromolecules. He developed a scale-consistent theory of coarse-graining that rigorously links all-atom energy surfaces with effective coarse-grained energy surfaces and, based on this theory, the UNRES model of polypeptide chains, which later evolved into the UNICORN coarse-grained model of proteins, nucleic acids and polysaccharides. He is the author of about 300 journal papers, including those published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Phys. Chem. B, J. Chem. Phys., 16 book chapters, and Edited the book Computational methods to study the structure and dynamics of biomolecules and biomolecular Processes (Springer, 2016).

Olga Kuksenok is currently an Associate Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Clemson University in Clemson, SC, USA. She was formerly a Research Associate Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Dr. Kuksenok received her Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1997. Dr. Kuksenok’s research interests and accomplishments span the following areas of computational materials science: elastodynamics of responsive polymer gels, dynamics of multi-component polymer blends, biomimetic materials, pattern formation in non-equilibrium systems, complex fluids dynamics, and theory of heterogeneous liquid crystalline systems. She has authored or co-authored nearly 100 publications, including publications in Nature, Physical Review, Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Chemistry, Materials Horizon and other high impact journals, and 10 book chapters.