Kai Grass

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PhD student

Office:	2.403
Phone:	+49(0)69 / 798 - 47533
Fax:	+49(0)69 / 798 - 47611
Email:	grass _at_ fias.uni-frankfurt.de
Address:	Kai Grass Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1 60438 Frankfurt am Main Germany

Research

For my PhD thesis, I started investigating the structure formation and dynamics of polyelectrolytes during DNA_Electrophoresis. This work is closely related to the separation of DNA during sequencing using varying electrophoretic techniques. My work will include theoretical approaches as well as extensive computer simulations with newly devised models. I expect this to lead to a deeper understanding of the complex mechanisms involved in this process, which might ultimately result in improved separation methods.

Further research topics are electro-hydrodynamics in confinement and an iPBS interative Poisson Boltzmann solver.

I am also interested in analyzing and simulating surprising properties of various other complex systems.

Additional Information

My other personal interests are karate and roleplaying games.

Publications

2006

• Martin O. Steinhauser, Kai Grass, Klaus Thoma, Alexander Blumen.
  Impact dynamics and failure of brittle solid states by means of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations.
  Europhysics Letters 73:62–68, 2006.
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2005