Mounir Tarek

Mounir Tarek is a physicist in the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. He is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Tarek started at NIST in the summer of 1997, working at the NCNR as part of a cooperative research agreement between the University of  Pennsylvania (M.L. Klein) and NIST.  He is involved in the study of the structure and dynamics of macromolecular and biological systems using state of the art Molecular Dynamics simulations in comparison to neutron experiments.
 

  • Education:

    • BS in Physics, University of Med V, Rabat, Morocco(1988).
    MS in Physics, University of Paris VII (1989).
    PhD in Physics, University of Paris VII (1994).
    Post-Dosctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, " Prof. M. L. Klein" (1994-1997)
     
  • Research Interests:

    • Dynamics of proteins and their hydration water.
    Structure and dynamics of lipid Bilayers.
    Surfactants.
     
  • List of Publications

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  • Address :

    • Mounir Tarek
    NIST Center for Neutron Research
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
    100 Bureau Drive - Stop 8562
    Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562
  • Phone : (301) 975-3959
  • FAX : (301) 921-9847
  • e-mail : tarek@jazz.ncnr.nist.gov