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Maria - Elke - Werner - Jana / 2000


Personal
Born:       (birthname Effgen)

Married:   Elke Ingeborg Kaminsky

Children:  Maria Judith Kaminsky

                Jana Miriam Kaminsky

22.10.1959

24.8.1988

17.7.1996

3.8.1998

Boardmemberships
German Language School, Seattle 2003-
Education
        University of Cologne

Thesis Advisor: Prof. S. Haussuehl

*)   Masters thesis

**) Habilitation (venia legendi) is the official qualification to teach at

universities in Germany. To some extend it is like a second - 'big' - PhD.

1986 (Diploma *)

1990 (PhD)

2000 (Habilitation**)

Professional Experience
1.PHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT, Cologne, Germany

Studental assistant

INST. FÜR KRISTALLOGRAPHIE, Cologne, Germany

Studental assistant

Postdoctorial Research Associate to Prof. S. Haussuehl

JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD, United Kingdom

Tutor

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, United Kingdom

Research Fellow

Departmental Lecturer

Research Fellow

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, USA

Visiting Scientist

Research Associate Professor / Crystallographer

INST. FÜR KRISTALLOGRAPHIE, Cologne, Germany

Adjunct Professor for Crystallography

   

1983-1984

   

1985-1990

1990-1994, 1996

   

1994-1995

     

1997-1998

1998

1999

     

1999-2000

2000-

       

2001-

Honors and Awards
British Philips Physical Crystallography Price [IUCr 4 (1996) 12]

German DFG-Habilitation award

British EPSRC-Research Grant

April 1995

$70,000; 1994-1996

1997-1998

Teaching in Seattle
BSTR 519 WINTER 2002/2003 1-credit, extension to BSTR 515: "Computer Laboratory Experience in the Chemistry X-ray Laboratory"

GEN ST 197 V # 9678 AUTUMN 2002 1-credit, Freshman Seminar: " Diving Deep: X-ray structure determination"

GEN ST 391 Spring 2001 3-credits, "Crystal structure determination"

GEN ST 391 Summer 2001 3-credits, "Mathematical tools and crystallographic computing"

GEN ST 391 Fall 2001 3-credits, "Physical properties of crystals"

Current Research Group
Undergraduate:

Graduate:

Visitors:

none

none

Javier Herreras-Cedres

Research Interests
Correlation of crystal structures with chiro-optical properties
OTHER RESEARCH SUPPORT and income sources
Active (including overheads)
Crystallographic service for the Dep. of Chemistry

NSF 'Optical Probes of Crystal Growth Mechanisms' until 2004

RRF 'Novel Microscope'

50% salary

50% salary

$28,000 one year

Pending
CPAC (PI) 'fast birefringence imaging microscope'

$60,000 total

Expired
PRF (co - PI) 'Interpretation of Gyration Tensors' two years

NSF-IGERT (paid by the Centre for Nanotechnology) until end of 2002

$60,000 total

25% salary

declined
Packard Foundation (co - PI) 'Imaging Chirality in complex diseased tissues'

NIH (co - PI) 'Circular Dichroism Imaging of Neuropathologies'

$250,000 initially                        

$130,000 initially


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