Thomas Vogel. Background / Research Interests. Education. Positions and Experience

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1 Assistant Professor of Physics The University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA Phone: ; Publications online: scholar.google.com/citations?user=jtfd4akaaaaj Background / Research Interests statistical physics; soft matter systems / biophysics; material science; soft hard-matter interfaces; algorithm development; supercomputing Education Nov 09 Feb 04 Ph.D. in Physics: University of Leipzig, Germany Structural Behavior of Polymers from Monte Carlo Studies of Coarse-Grained Models. Supervisor: Dr. W. Janke; Grade: magna cum laude; Minor: Linguistics Diplom in Physics: University of Leipzig, Germany HP Proteins on Regular Lattices and Homopolymer Collapse. Supervisor: Dr. W. Janke Grade: very good; Minor: Computer Science Positions and Experience Aug 17 present Aug 15 Jul 17 Apr 13 Aug 15 Assistant Professor at University of North Georgia Physics Department gen-ed courses: Astronomy and College Physics developing undergraduate student research Visiting Assistant Professor at Stetson University Physics Department upper-level courses: Modern Physics, Quantum mechanics, upper-level courses: Mechanics, and E&M gen-ed courses: Astronomy and College Physics gen-ed courses: Energy for a Sustainable Future simulations of metals and hybrid systems developing undergraduate student research Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division Postdoc; Advisor: Danny Perez, Arthur F. Voter simulations of contaminated metals and material defects developing higher-dimensional generalized ensemble techniques implemented generalized ensemble molecular dynamics techniques

2 Nov 10 Mar 13 Mar 10 Apr 10 Sep 09 Oct 10 The University of Georgia, Athens, GA (Postdoc) Center for Simulational Physics; Advisor: David P. Landau took leading part in collaboration with UTK and Vanderbilt U worked on formation of lipid bilayer membranes developed massively parallel Wang Landau Monte Carlo scheme co-supervised graduate student research projects Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Visiting researcher) Computational Physics Group; Host: Joan Adler worked on carbon nanotube modelling and polymer nanotubes Jülich Research Centre, Germany (Postdoc) Institute of Solid State Research; Advisor: Michael Bachmann worked on adsorption of polymers at nanostrings took leading part in collaboration with Supercomputing Centre performed basic research on range-dependent potentials used optimization algorithms and analytical approaches Grants 2012 XSEDE Startup grant: SU at TACC Sun Constellation Cluster (Ranger) 2013 XSEDE Research grant: SU at TACC Dell PowerEdge C8220 Cluster (Stampede) 2014 Institutional Computing grant: CPUh at Los Alamos computers Further Professional Skills Natural language fluency: German (native); English, Spanish (full professional proficiency) Experience in high-performance computing: Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC: ranger, stampede); Jülich Supercomputing Centre (NIC: jump, juropa); Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center (GACRC: zcluster); and others Current Referee Duties / Peer Review Active referee for the scientific journals: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B & E Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation The Journal of Chemical Physics Computer Physics Communications (Excellence in Reviewing Award 2013) 2

3 The Journal of Physical Chemistry Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and others Publications Publications online: scholar.google.com/citations?user=jtfd4akaaaaj Peer reviewed journal articles: 1. D. Perera, T. Vogel, D.P. Landau, Magnetic phase transition in coupled spin lattice systems: A replica-exchange Wang Landau study, Phys. Rev. E 94, (2016) 2. T. Vogel and D. Perez, Towards an optimal flow: Density-of-states-informed replicaexchange simulations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, (2015) 3. J. Gross, T. Vogel, and M. Bachmann, Structural phases of adsorption for flexible polymers on nanocylinder surfaces, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, (2015) 4. T. Vogel, J. Gross, and M. Bachmann, Thermodynamics of the Adsorption of Flexible Polymers on Nanowires, J. Chem. Phys. 142, (2015) 5. G. Shi, T. Vogel, Y.-W. Li, T. Wüst, and D.P. Landau, Effect of single-site mutations on hydrophobic polar lattice proteins, Phys. Rev. E 90, (2014) (Editor s suggestion) 6. T. Vogel, Y.-W. Li, T. Wüst, and D.P. Landau, Scalable replica-exchange framework for Wang Landau sampling, Phys. Rev. E 90, (2014) 7. D. Perez, T. Vogel, and B.P. Uberuaga, Diffusion and transformation kinetics of small helium clusters in bulk tungsten, Phys. Rev. B 90, (2014) 8. C. Junghans, D. Perez, and T. Vogel, Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics in the Multicanonical Ensemble: Connections between Wang Landau Sampling and Metadynamics, J. Chem. Theory Comp. 10, 1843 (2014) 9. L. Gai, T. Vogel, K. Maerzke, C. Iacovella, D.P. Landau, P.T. Cummings, and C. McCabe, Examining the Phase Transition Behavior of Amphiphilic Lipids in Solution Using Statistical Temperature Molecular Dynamics and Replica-Exchange Wang Landau Methods, J. Chem. Phys. 139, (2013) 10. T. Vogel, Y.-W. Li, T. Wüst, and D.P. Landau, Generic, Hierarchical Framework for Massively Parallel Wang Landau Sampling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, (2013) 3

4 11. T. Vogel, T. Mutat, J. Adler, and M. Bachmann, Morphological Similarities between Single-walled Nanotubes and Tubelike Structures of Polymers with Strong Adsorption Affinity to Nanowires, Comm. Comp. Phys. 13, 1245 (2013) [pdf] 12. J. Gross, T. Neuhaus, T. Vogel, and M. Bachmann, Effects of interaction range on structural phases of flexible polymers, J. Chem. Phys. 138, (2013) 13. T. Vogel and M. Bachmann, Adsorption of polymers at nanowires, Comp. Phys. Comm. 182, 1928 (2011) 14. T. Vogel and M. Bachmann, Conformational phase diagram for polymers adsorbed at ultrathin nanowires, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, (2010) 15. T. Vogel, T. Neuhaus, M. Bachmann, and W. Janke, Thermodynamics of tubelike flexible polymers, Phys. Rev. E 80, (2009) 16. T. Vogel, T. Neuhaus, M. Bachmann, and W. Janke, Ground-state properties of tubelike flexible polymers, Eur. Phys. J. E 30, 7 (2009) 17. S. Schnabel, T. Vogel, M. Bachmann, and W. Janke, Surface effects in the crystallization process of elastic flexible polymers, Chem. Phys. Lett. 476, 201 (2009) 18. T. Vogel, T. Neuhaus, M. Bachmann, and W. Janke, Thickness-dependent secondary structure formation of tubelike polymers, EPL (Europhys. Lett.) 85, (2009) 19. T. Vogel, M. Bachmann, and W. Janke, Freezing and Collapse of Flexible Polymers on Regular Lattices in Three Dimensions, Phys. Rev. E 76, (2007) Conference proceedings and invited articles: 20. T. Vogel, Y.-W. Li, and D.P. Landau, A practical guide to replica-exchange Wang Landau simulations, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. (2017), to be published 21. Z. Rosson, F. Hall, and T. Vogel, Orbital behavior around a non-uniform celestial body, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 750, (2016) 22. T. Vogel and D. Perez, Accelerating the Convergence of Replica Exchange Simulations Using Gibbs Sampling and Adaptive Temperature Sets, Phys. Procedia 68, 125 (2015) 23. D. Perera, Y.-W. Li, M. Eisenbach, T. Vogel, and D.P. Landau, Replica exchange Wang Landau sampling: Pushing the limits of Monte Carlo simulations for materials science, Proceedings of the 2015 TMS Annual Meeting (2015) [arxiv: ] 24. T. Vogel and D. Perez, Sampling in the multicanonical ensemble: Small He clusters in W, Phys. Procedia 57, 104 (2014) 4

5 25. Y.-W. Li, T. Vogel, T. Wüst, and D.P. Landau, A new paradigm for petascale Monte Carlo simulation: Replica exchange Wang Landau sampling, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 510, (2014) 26. T. Vogel, Y.-W. Li, T. Wüst, and D.P. Landau, Exploring new frontiers in statistical physics with a new, parallel Wang-Landau framework, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 487, (2014) 27. T. Vogel, All the way to CUDA, Comp. Sci. Eng. 15(5), 6 (2013) 28. J. Gross, T. Neuhaus, T. Vogel, and M. Bachmann, Statistical Analysis of the Influence of Interaction Ranges on Structural Phases of Flexible Polymers, Phys. Procedia 53, 50 (2013) 29. T. Vogel, T. Mutat, J. Adler, and M. Bachmann, Accurate modeling approach for the structural comparison between monolayer polymer tubes and single-walled nanotubes, Phys. Procedia 15, 87 (2011) 30. T. Vogel and M. Bachmann, Structural arrangements of polymers adsorbed at nanostrings, Phys. Procedia 4, 161 (2010) 31. T. Vogel, M. Bachmann, and W. Janke, Freezing and Collapse of Flexible Polymers, In: U.H.E. Hansmann et al. (Eds.) From Computational Biophysics to System Biology (CBSB08), Proceedings. NIC Series, Vol. 40. John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), Jülich (2008) [pdf] Presentations Invited talks: 1. Advanced Simulation Techniques in Biophysics and Nanotechnology, Colloquium, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, Coarse-grained membrane simulations, Lecture, Eighth q-bio Summer School, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Monte Carlo methods, T-1 Lecture, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sampling in the multicanonical ensemble. Wang Landau, STMD, and metadynamics; with application to: Self-assembly of lipid molecules, T-6 Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Coarse-Grained Approaches to Molecular Structure Formation, Oberseminar, Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Monte Carlo simulations of polymers interacting with nanowires, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,

6 7. Coarse-Grained Approaches to Molecular Structure Formation, ASIM-Workshop Trends in Computational Science and Engineering, Jülich, Structural Behavior of Polymers from Monte Carlo Studies of Coarse-Grained Models, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Secondary structure formation of tubelike polymers, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, Polymer Chain Growth on Lattice, CBBP Seminar Series, Lund, Sweden, 2006 Contributed talks: 12. Thermodynamics of the adsorption of flexible polymers on nanowires and cylinder surfaces, 29th Annual CSP Workshop, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Gibbs-sampling enhanced replica-exchange molecular dynamics, 28th Annual CSP Workshop, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Sampling in the multicanonical ensemble. Wang Landau, STMD, and metadynamics; with application to: Small He clusters in W, T-1 Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics in the Multicanonical Ensemble: Connections between Wang-Landau Sampling and Metadynamics, APS March Meeting, Denver, CO, Sampling in the multicanonical ensemble: Small He clusters in W, 27th Annual CSP Workshop, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Generic parallel Wang-Landau sampling for complex systems, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Amphiphilic lipids in solution: a simulational study of lipid bilayer formation, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Applications of parallel Wang-Landau sampling, 26th Annual CSP Workshop, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Parallel Wang Landau study of amphiphilic molecules, APS March Meeting, Boston, MA, Morphological similarities of carbon nanotubes and polymers adsorbed on nanowires, 24th Annual CSP Workshop, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, The conformational phase diagram for adsorbed polymers, Conference on Computational Physics (CCP 2010), Trondheim, Norway,

7 23. Polymers at nanowires: The conformational phase diagram for adsorbed polymers, Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Regensburg, Polymers at nanowires: The conformational phase diagram for adsorbed polymers, 23rd Annual CSP Workshop, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Secondary structure formation of tubelike polymers (short version), Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Dresden, Secondary structure formation of tubelike polymers, Saxonian Theory Seminar, Leipzig, Freezing and collapse of flexible lattice polymers, 18th International Workshop on Lattice Field Theory and Statistical Physics (LEILAT08), Leipzig, Ground-state properties of thick flexible polymers, Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Berlin, Freezing and collapse of flexible polymers, 8th International NTZ-Workshop on New Developments in Computational Physics (CompPhys07), Leipzig, Simple protein models, NTZ-Workshop Protein Folding and Substrate Specificity (ProtFold05), Leipzig, Collapse of Long Lattice Polymers, Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Regensburg, 2004 Conference Poster Presentations 1. Effect of Mutations on HP Lattice Proteins, 26th Annual CSP Workshop, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2013; APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Effects of the potential width on the folding behavior of flexible polymers, BioScience 2012, Jülich, Parallel Wang Landau study of micelle formation, 25th CSP Workshop, Athens, GA, Conformational phase diagram for polymers adsorbed at ultrathin nanowires (updated), Workshop Theory and Computer Simulation of Polymers, Moscow, 2010; International Soft Matter Conference, Granada, Spain, Conformational phase diagram for polymers adsorbed at ultrathin nanowires, 24th Umbrella Symposium, Jülich, Thermodynamics of tubelike flexible polymers, Jülich Soft Matter Days, Bonn,

8 9. Secondary structure formation of tubelike polymers, 34th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO34), Leipzig, Freezing and Collapse of Flexible Polymers, Workshop From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB08), Jülich, Ground-State Properties of Thick Flexible Polymers, 33th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO33), Puchberg, Austria, 2008; 9th International NTZ-Workshop on New Developments in Computational Physics (CompPhys08), Leipzig, Collapse and Freezing Transitions of Polymers on Regular Lattices 7th NTZ-Workshop on Computational Physics (CompPhys06), Leipzig, 2006; CECAM Tutorial Programming Parallel Computers, Jülich, 2007; Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Regensburg, Application of New Chain-Growth Algorithms for Lattice Polymers, Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Dresden, Coarse-Grained Polymer Models: On-Lattice vs. Off-Lattice, Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Berlin, 2005; 30th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO30), Cortona, Italy, 2005; 4. Biotech Day, Leipzig, 2005; 6th NTZ-Workshop on Computational Physics (CompPhys05), Leipzig, HP Proteins on Generalized Lattices, Winter School on Computational Soft Matter, Bonn, 2004; Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Regensburg, 2004; 3. Biotech Day, Leipzig, Untersuchung des 2D Ising-Modells mit Brascamp-Kunz Randbedingungen, Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Dresden, 2003 Professional Memberships since 2003 Member of the German Physical Society since 2010 Member of the American Physical Society 8

Awards and Highlights Recent awards Excellence in

Computer Physics Communications 2013 Thomas Vogel

Scott, Editor-in-Chief YsabelErmers, Publisher

9 Awards and Highlights Recent awards Excellence in Reviewing, Computer Physics Communications, 2013 Computer Physics Communications 2013 Thomas Vogel Dr.N.S.Scott, Editor-in-Chief YsabelErmers, Publisher Outstanding Young Researcher Award, From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB)

10 Science Highlights Two papers highlighted on the Physical Review E website, week of Sept. 15,

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