Education:
Ph.D., Physics, 1990, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Biography
Dr. Steinbach came to the NIH in 1990 as a postdoctoral researcher, led the Center for Information Technology's (CIT) Center for Molecular Modeling for 23 years, and joined the NIAID’s Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) in 2021. He studies protein structure and dynamics with computational methods, including machine learning, homology modeling, and molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation. He has also advanced the state of the art in recovering probability densities from experimental measurements with the maximum entropy method. His MemExp software is used to interpret time-dependent signals (e.g., fluorescence) in terms of exponential processes.