CV

Personal Information

Name

Rheinstädter, name at birth Steinmetz

First names

Maikel Christian

 

Educational Background

2002 Doctor of Natural Sciences (Magna cum Laude), Saarland University, supervisor K. Knorr
1997 Diplom Physik, with distinction, Saarland University, supervisor M. Enderle
1994 Vordiplom Mathematik, Saarland University
1993 Vordiplom Physik, Saarland University

1991

Abitur (general qualification for university entrance), with distinction

 

Professional Organizations

 
American Physical Society Biophysical Society
Canadian Association of Physicists German Biophysical Society
German Physical Society  

 

Employment History
10/2009 Visiting Professor, Departamento de Fisica de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2009–present Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, in partnership with NRC Chalk River
2006–2008 Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
2005–2006 Visiting Scientist, Institut for X-ray Physics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany with T. Salditt
2004–2006 Staff Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France, Instrument Responsible IN11, supervisor: H. Schober

2002–2004

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany and Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France, Instrument Responsible IN22, supervisor: D. Richter

1998–2000

Software engineer, Freelancer, Dialogika GmbH, Dudweiler, Germany

1997–2002

Research Assistant, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, supervisor: K. Knorr

 

Scholarly and Professional Activities

2010–present

Member of the Science Review Committee for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) neutron scattering facilities

2009–present

CNBC Chalk River Proposal Review Coordinator for “Soft Materials”

 

Conference Organization

2009

Organizer, SoftmatterBio@MAC Retreat, Workshop of the Soft-Condensed Matter & Biophysics group at McMaster University, November 27-28, 2009, The Westwind Inn, Buckhorn, ON, Canada

2005

Organizing Committee Member, NSE2005, International Workshop, September 7-10, 2005, ILL, Grenoble, France

 

Journal Referee

  • Physical Review B (2)

  • Physical Review E (6)

  • Biophysical Journal (2)

  • Biophysical Chemistry (1)

  • Langmuir (1)

  • Soft-Matter (1)

  • European Physical Journal E (1)

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (1)

  • Journal of Structural Biology (1)

  • Journal of Molecular Liquids (1)

  • Biomembranes (3)

  • European Biophysics Journal (1)

  • Philosophical Magazine (1)

  • Measurement Science and Technology (1)

  • Journal of Physics (1)

 

External Grant Review

  • NSERC (1)

  • U.SDepartment of Energy DOE (1)

  • University of Missouri Research Board (2)

  • Czech Science Foundation (1)

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1)

 

External Beam Time Allocation Reviews

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST/NCNR (30)

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (23)

  • ANSTO Bragg Institute (1)

 

Areas of Interest

Membrane dynamics, dynamics of membrane embedded proteins, interactions between membrane inclusions, protein aggregation, neutron scattering, x-ray scattering, preparation of artificial membranes, development of sample environment (humidity chambers) for neutron and x-ray experiments, development of scattering techniques for the application in biology, undergraduate physics education, undergraduate and graduate student training

 

Honours

2003

“Young Scientist Award”, European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA)

 

Activities Related to Teaching

7.      May 9-13, 2011, Lecturer, 11th Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (CINS) Neutron Summer School, Chalk River, ON, Canada, 45 Students enrolled

6.      November 30, 2010, Guest Lecturer, McMaster Honours Integrated Science Program, Hamilton, ON, Canada, 50 Students enrolled

5.      June 13-17, 2010, Lecturer, CIFAR Summer Forum on Interdisciplinary Nano Science, , University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 80 Students enrolled

4.      October 19-26, 2009 , Lecturer (series of 3 lectures), Red Nacional de Postgrado en Ciencias Físicas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Facultad de Fisica, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 20 Students enrolled

3.      June 15-19, 2009, Lecturer, 10th Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (CINS) Neutron Summer School, Chalk River, ON, Canada, 45 Students enrolled

2.      June 25-29, 2007, Lecturer, NCNR Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy, NIST, Gaithersburg, 35 Students enrolled

1.      2006, Tutorial, Hercules 2006 (Higher European Research Course for Users of Large Experimental Systems), ILL, Grenoble, France, 10 Students enrolled

 

Research Funding

2009

Ontario Research Fund,
"
Laboratory for Membrane and Protein Dynamics",
$180,000

2009

Canada Foundation for Innovation,
"
Laboratory for Membrane and Protein Dynamics",
$180,000

2009-2014

National Research Council of Canada, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences - Canadian Neutron Beam Centre,
"Biological Research at the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River",
$50,000

2009-2014

National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, NSERC Discovery,
"Collective Molecular Dynamics in Proteins and Membranes",
$140,000

2009-2014

National Research Council of Canada, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences - Canadian Neutron Beam Centre,
"Neutron-based experimental condensed matter physics",
$250,000

2009

McMaster University,
Start-up Funds

2008

 

Summer Research Fellowship,
University of Missouri-Columbia,
"Dynamics of membrane embedded peptides and proteins and impact on physiological and biological bilayer functions",
$7,000

2008

 

A&S Alumni Organization,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Research Enhancement,
"Dynamical Studies of Model Membranes",
$1,300

2007

 

DOE NSEI Reactor Utilization program,
University of Missouri Research Reactor MURR,
"Elastic and inelastic neutron scattering experiments in biophysics and biology at MURR",
$9,200

2007

 

A&S Alumni Organization,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Research Enhancement,
"Effect of Ethanol on the Short Wavelength dispersion relation in Phospholipid Bilayers: Coupling Acyl Chain Fluctuations to Transmembrane Transport",
$1,250

2006

 

University of Missouri Research Board,
"Humidity Chamber for Biophysical Research at MURR",
$20,100

2006

 

University of Missouri Columbia,
Start-up Funds

2005

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG,
"Untersuchung der Dynamik biomimetischer Lipidmembrane mittels unelastischer Neutronenstreuung",
$150,000, together with Prof. Dr. T. Salditt, Institut für Röntgenphysik, Göttingen, Germany

2003

"Young Scientist Award" of the European Neutron Scattering Association ENSA for a contribution about inelastic neutron scattering in biological model membranes.

1991

Award for outstanding general qualification for university entrance (Abitur) in mathematics and physics

 

Invited Conference Presentations

24. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion”,
8th European Biophysics Congress, August 23-27, 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
 

23. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion (Scattering Experiments Outside of the Comfort Zone)”,
XDL2011 Workshop 6-Frontier Science with X-ray Correlation Spectroscopies using Continuous Sources, June 29-30, 2011, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.
 

22. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion”,
BILL2011, January 12-14, 2011, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
 

21. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion”, Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Congress 2010, June 7-10, 2010, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
 

20. “Collective Molecular Dynamics in Proteins and Membranes”, Workshop on Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometry, November 4-5, 2009, Oak Ridge, TN, U.S.A..
 

19. “Collective Molecular Dynamics in Proteins and Membranes”, Neutrons in Biology Meeting 2009 (NIB2009), June 22 - 24, 2009, Lund University, Sweden.
 

18. “Collective Molecular Dynamics in Proteins and Membranes”, International Conference on Neutron Scattering 2009 (ICNS2009), May 3 - 7, 2009, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
 

17. “Collective Molecular Dynamics in Proteins and Membranes”, Neutrons and X-rays meet Biology, February 25 - 27, 2009, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany. 
 

16. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, Dynamics of Soft Matter (DSM2008), December 4 - 6, 2008, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
 

15. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, Biological Physics at large Facilities: From Molecule to Cell, October 19 — 23, 2008, Grenoble, France. 
 

14. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, 2008 Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, May 31 — June 5, 2008, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
 

13. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, APS March Meeting 2008, March 10, 2008, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.
 

12. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, February 2-6, 2008, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
 

11. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, Workshop on X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy and Microbeam SAXS at NSLS-II, January 10-11, 2008, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, U.S.A.
 

10. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Funtionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, AVS 54th International Symposium & Exhibition, October 12-14, 2007, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
 

9. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, SNS-HFIR User Group SHUG2007, October 8-12, 2007, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, U.SA. 
 

8. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, 54th Midwestern Solid State Conference, October 6-7, 2007, Lincoln, NA, U.S.A. 
 

7. “Using neutron spectroscopy to study collective dynamics of biological and model membrane systems”, American Crystallographic Association 2006 Annual Meeting, July 22-27, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
 

6. “Exploring the collective dynamics of lipid membranes with inelastic neutron scattering”, International Conference on Neutron Scattering ICNS2005, November 28, 2005, Sydney, Australia 
 

5. “Exploring the collective dynamics of lipid membranes with inelastic neutron scattering”, Symposium on Biomaterials and Neutrons, American Vacuum Society Meeting, October 31, 2005, Boston, MA, U.S.A. 
 

4. “Collective long wavelength dynamics of lipid membranes studied by quasielastic neutron reflectivity on spin echo spectrometers”, Probing complex fluid membranes and films with neutron spin echo, International Workshop, August 17, 2005, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. 
 

3. “Collective dynamics of lipid membranes studied by inelastic neutron scattering”, Deutsche Neutronenstreutagung, September 2, 2004, Dresden, Germany
 

2.Collective dynamics of lipid membranes studied by inelastic neutron scattering”, Probing Dynamics at Interfaces, International Workshop, July 5, 2004, Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villingen, Switzerland 

1.Collective dynamics of lipid membranes studied by inelastic neutron scattering”, Journeés de la Diffusion Neutronique (JDN12), May 28, 2004, Praz sur Arly, France
 

Invited Colloquia and Seminars

19. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion”, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, January 12, 2012, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
 

18. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion”, Department of Physics, McGill University, September 23, 2011, Montreal, QC, Canada.
 

17. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion”, Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, September 20, 2011, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
 

16. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion”, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, October 7, 2010, Argonne, IL, U.S.A.
 

15. “Nanobiology: Membranes and Proteins in Motion”, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 6, 2010, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
 

14. “Nanobiology: Membranes  and Proteins in Motion”, Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, November 9, 2009, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
 

13. “Collective Molecular Dynamics in Proteins and Membranes”, Department of Physics, University of Guelph, September 15, 2009, Guelph, ON, Canada.
 

12. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, Department of Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, April 24, 2008, Rolla, MO, U.S.A.
 

11. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, March 31, 2008, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
 

10. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Indiana University, February 29, 2008, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
 

9. “The Impact of Collective Molecular Dynamics on Physiological and Biological Functionalities of Artificial and Biological Membranes”, January 30, 2008, University of California Irvine, Irvine CA, U.S.A.
 

8. “Using neutron spectroscopy to study collective dynamics of biological and model membrane systems”, Canadian Neutron Beam Centre NRC-CNRC, Chalk River, August 1, 2007, Chalk River, ON, Canada
 

7. “Using neutron spectroscopy to study collective dynamics of biological and model membrane systems”,  Physics Seminar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University,  April 27, 2007, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
 

6. “Using neutron spectroscopy to study collective dynamics of biological and model membrane systems”, Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, January 26, 2007, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
 

5. “Using neutron spectroscopy to study collective dynamics of biological and model membrane systems”, Biological Physics Seminar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, January 24, 2007, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
 

4. “Using neutron spectroscopy to study collective dynamics of biological and model membrane systems”, NIST Center for Neutron Research Seminar, November 17, 2006, Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A.
 

3. “Using neutron spectroscopy to study collective dynamics of biological and model membrane systems”, Biology and Soft Matter Collegium, Hahn-Meitner Institut, April 5,2006, Berlin, Germany
 

2. “Exploring the collective dynamics of lipid membranes with inelastic neutron scattering”, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), November 8, 2005, Oak Ridge, TN, U.S.A.
 

1. “Collective dynamics of lipid membranes studied by inelastic neutron scattering”, Physikalisches Kolloquium,FRM-II, Technische Universität München, May 30, 2005, Technische Universität München, Germany

 

Public Outreach

  • “Isotope shortage hurts Mac research”, April 16, 2010, The Hamilton Spectator, Interview

  • “Biophysics and Biology on a Molecular Scale”, Saturday Morning Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, February 3, 2007, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.