Paul J. Gans Professor of Chemistry B.S., Ohio State University; Ph.D., Case Institute of Technology; Postdoctoral research, University of Illinois, Urbana Email: gans@scholar.chem.nyu.edu Phone:  212-998-8485 Personal Homepage:  http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/

Areas of Research/Interest: Theoretical chemistry: determination of conforma-tional and thermodynamic properties of macromolecules by Monte Carlo simulation

Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

Gans, P. J. Review of statistical mechanics: Fundamentals and modern applications, JACS 120: 11026, 1998.

Lyu, P. C., P. J. Gans, and N. R. Kallenbach. Energetic contribution of solvent-exposed ion pairs to alpha-helix structure, J. Mol. Biol. 223: 343-350, 1992.

Gans, P. J., et al. (N. R. Kallenbach). The helix-coil transition in heteroge-neous peptides with specific side-chain interactions: Theory and comparison with CD spectral data, Biopolymers 31: 1605-1614, 1991.

Fellowships/Honors: Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching (1997, 1998)