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Education:

 B.S,  University of Science & Techology  of China,  2000

 M.S, University of Rochester, 2003  (advisor: Christoph Dellago)

 Ph.D, University of California, Irvine,2007 (advisor: Shaul Mukamel)

Research Experience:

 Postdoc,  University of California, Berkeley,  present (advisor: David Chandler)

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Research interest:

 Currently I am working on the electrochemistry of water.

Selected Publications:

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      "Simulation Protocols for Coherent Femtosecond Vibrational Spectra of Peptides," W. Zhuang, D. Abramavicius, T. Hayashi, S. Mukamel, J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 3362-3374 (2006)

• The reference paper for the "SPECTRON" package

      "Dissecting coherent vibrational spectra of small proteins into secondary structural elements by sensitivity analysis," W. Zhuang, D. Abramavicius , and S. Mukamel, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 102, 7443-7448 (2005)

•  Combine the Sensitivity Analysis method and MD simulation to understand the 2DIR signal of small globular proteins.

      "Novel Two-Dimensional Vibrational Optical Probes for Peptide Fast Folding Investigation" W. Zhuang, D. Abramavicius and S. Mukamel, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.USA. (In Press)

• A MD simulation based study, using Two Dimensional Chirality Induced Spectroscopy to investigate the ultrafast peptide folding. 

       "Stochastic Liouville Equation Simulation of Multidimensional Vibrational Lineshapes of Trialanine," T. Jansen, W. Zhuang, and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 121(21), 10577 (2004).

• Combine the MD simulation and the Stochastic Liouville Equations formalism for peptide Two Dimensional Infrared lineshape.             

       "Dissociation of Hydrogen Chloride and Proton Transfer in Liquid Glycerol: An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study" W. Zhuang, and C. Dellago, J. Phys. Chem. B. Special Issue "Frank H. Stillinger Festschrift" 2004, 108, 19647-19656.

• A  classical and ab initio MD simulation project.