Michael W. Deem

Michael W. Deem
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology (BS)
University of California at Berkeley (PhD)
Known forparallel tempering
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Awards (1997)
Top 100 Young Innovator, MIT Technology Review (1999)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemical and Genetic Engineering
Doctoral students
Websitemwdeem.org

Michael W. Deem is an American engineer, scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is known for his work in biochemical and genetic engineering, and for his contributions to parallel tempering methods in computational science.

Early life and education

Deem received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1991. He earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, where his thesis research focused on statistical mechanics and disordered materials under the supervision of David Chandler. He conducted postdoctoral research in physics at Harvard University from 1995 to 1996 with David R. Nelson.

Career

Deem began his academic career at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996, where he rose to the rank of associate professor of chemical engineering. From 2002 to 2020, he was the John W. Cox Professor of Biochemical and Genetic Engineering and professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University in Houston, Texas.[1] He served as the founding director of Rice’s graduate program in systems, synthetic, and physical biology (2012–2014) and as chair of the bioengineering department (2014–2017).[2]

He has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.[3] Deem has received several awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1997), recognition as a Top 100 Young Innovator by the MIT Technology Review (1999), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2000), the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2002), the Allan P. Colburn Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2004), the Professional Progress Award of AIChE (2010), the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award from the TAMEST, a visiting scholar appointment with Phi Beta Kappa (2012–2013),[3] and the Donald W. Breck Award in Molecular Sieve Science from the International Zeolite Association (2019).

From 2008 to 2010, Deem served as an academic adviser to He Jiankui, the scientist involved in the He Jiankui affair regarding the first gene-edited babies.

From 2021 to 2022, Deem was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures, where he helped select, mentor, and incubate portfolio companies. From 2023, Deem was a Managing Partner with Angeliki Fund. Angeliki Fund is the world's first private equity fund for digital and physical dementia care infrastructure.[4]

Selected publications

  • Earl, David J.; Deem, Michael W. (2005). "Parallel tempering: Theory, applications, and new perspectives". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 7 (23): 3910–3916. arXiv:physics/0508111. doi:10.1039/B509983H.
  • Bogarad, Leonard D.; Deem, Michael W. (1999). "A hierarchical approach to protein molecular evolution". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 (6): 2591–2595. arXiv:cond-mat/9903310. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.6.2591. PMID 10077558.
  • Gupta, Vishal; Earl, David J.; Deem, Michael W. (2006). "Quantifying influenza vaccine efficacy and antigenic distance". Vaccine. 24 (18): 3881–3888. arXiv:q-bio/0503030. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.01.010. PMID 16504238.
  • Lin, Li-Chiang; Berger, Adam H.; Martin, Richard L.; Kim, Jihan; Swisher, Joseph A.; Jariwala, Kuldeep; Rycroft, Chris H.; Bhown, Abhoyjit S.; Deem, Michael W.; Haranczyk, Maciej; Smit, Berend (2012). "In silico screening of carbon-capture materials". Nature Materials. 11: 633–641. doi:10.1038/nmat3336. PMID 22641192.
  • Falcioni, Marco; Deem, Michael W. (1999). "A biased Monte Carlo scheme for zeolite structure solution". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 110 (3): 1754–1766. arXiv:cond-mat/9809085. doi:10.1063/1.477812.
  • Earl, David J.; Deem, Michael W. (2004). "Evolvability is a selectable trait". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (32): 11531–11536. arXiv:q-bio/0407012. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404656101. PMID 15277680.
  • Deem, Michael W. (2013). "Statistical mechanics of modularity and horizontal gene transfer". Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 4: 287–311. doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-030212-184223.

See also

References

  1. ^ Marchione, Marilynn (2018-11-26). "Chinese researcher claims first gene-edited babies". AP News. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
  2. ^ "Home". mwdeem.org.
  3. ^ a b "2012-2013: Michael W. Deem". Ohio Wesleyan University. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
  4. ^ "Angeliki Fund". angeliki-fund.com.
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