Short Curriculm Vita

Donald J Jacobs, Ph. D
Education
1992 Ph.D Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1991 M.S. Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1985 B.S. Physics, Union College, Schenectady, NY
1983 A.S. Engineering Science, Fulton-Montgomery Community College Johnstown,
Educational Honors
Edward F. Akeley Memorial Award for outstanding theoretical physics thesis. Thesis: Brownian Motion in Disordered Media
David Ross fellowship
Undergraduate Honors, Magna Cum Laude. Honors Thesis: Monte Carlo Simulation of Multistate Percolation Models
Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges (1982-1983)
Professional experience
1999-current Assistant Professor of Physics, California State University, Northridge
1999-current Acting president to MolFlex LLC
1998-1999 President and Director of Research, MolFlex LLC
1998-1999 Assistant Research Professor of Physics, Michigan State University
1994-1998 Research Associate, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
1994-1998 Research Associate, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
1994-1996 Half-time Instructor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
1992-1994 Postdoctoral Research, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Professional society memberships
American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, Biophysical society, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Patents and scientific software

D. J. Jacobs and M. F. Thorpe, Computer Implemented System for Identifying Rigid and Flexible Regions in Macromolecules, US patent # 6014449, filed February 20, (1998).

D. J. Jacobs, M. F. Thorpe and L. A. Kuhn, Floppy Inclusion and Rigid Substructure Topography (FIRST) -- beta-version of a biotechnology software partially developed at MolFlex LLC. FIRST is now being distributed from Michigan State University under Prof. Thorpe.


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