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Dr. Brent Krueger is a professor of chemistry and Schaap Research Fellow and has been working at Hope since 2001.

He teaches courses in a variety of areas including physical chemistry, computational modeling/programming and introductory chemistry. He was also one of the developers of, and frequently teaches in the Day1: Watershed program. Dr. Krueger has engaged in a variety of research projects during his time at Hope ranging from physics and chemistry to biology. Currently he and his students are involved with several projects related to water quality ranging from study of our local Lake Macatawa to drinking water from at-risk communities around the world. He is also actively involved with and with the (MU3C).

See Dr. Krueger亚洲色吧檚 current research in more detail 

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Relationships between microbial populations and chemical and physical parameters in recreational water
• Helping NGOs better serve at-risk communities through improved drinking water
• Biophysical studies using laser spectroscopy and computational modeling
• Predicting fluorescent probe motions using molecular dynamics calculations
• Development of mixed MD-QM methods for comparing simulation with experiment

EDUCATION

• NIH Postdoc, molecular dynamics and pharmaceutical chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, 1999亚洲色吧�2001
• Postdoc, energy transfer in photosynthesis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1999
• Ph.D., physical chemistry, University of Chicago, 1999
• B.S., physics and chemistry, Truman State University, 1993

Selected GRANTS

• 亚洲色吧淪ARS-CoV-2 Monitoring of Wastewater for 13 Counties in Southwest Michigan,亚洲色吧�  Michigan Department of Health and Human Services ($7,543,073), 2021亚洲色吧�2023
• 亚洲色吧淚mplementation of Digital Droplet PCR Technology for SARS-CoV-2 Testing in Wastewater in Ottawa and Allegan Counties,亚洲色吧� Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy grant ($685,919), 2020
• 亚洲色吧淎cquisition of a High Performance Computing Cluster for Undergraduate Chemistry Research and Teaching by the Midwest Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C),亚洲色吧� National Science Foundation grant ($400,400), 2019亚洲色吧�2022
• 亚洲色吧淓xpanding the LibreTexts Project into the Next-Generation Hub for Construction, Dissemination, and Usage of Open Educational Resource Textbooks,亚洲色吧� Department of Education Grant ($161,691), 2018-2021 (part of a multi-institution collaborative grant led by Delmar Larsen, totaling $4,949,843)
• 亚洲色吧淨uantifying Fluorescent Probe Dynamics in FRET Experiments by Combining Single-Molecule and Bulk Spectroscopies with Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics Simulations,亚洲色吧� National Science Foundation grant ($385,000), 2011亚洲色吧�2015

Selected Publications

• 亚洲色吧淢olecular Dynamics Force Field Parameters to Describe EGFP and Some of Its Analogs,亚洲色吧� Journal of Physical Chemistry B 127, 2023 (with 3 Hope undergraduate co-authors)
• 亚洲色吧淚mprovements in diarrheal disease prevalence with point-of-use water filter implementation in the informal settlement of Kibera, Kenya,亚洲色吧� Archives of Clinical and Biomedical Research 7, 2023 (with 9 Hope undergaduate co-authors)
• 亚洲色吧淒iarrhea Prevalence in a Randomized, Controlled Prospective Trial of Point-of-use Water Filters in Homes and Schools in the Dominican Republic,亚洲色吧� Tropical Medicine and Health 49, 2021 (with 16 Hope undergaduate co-authors)
• 亚洲色吧淯sing Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics Calculations to Model Fluorescence Observables,亚洲色吧� Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115, 2011 (with 3 Hope undergaduate co-authors)
• 亚洲色吧淎 Thermodynamic Exploration of Eosin-Lysozyme Binding: A Physical Chemistry and Biochemistry Laboratory Experiment,亚洲色吧� Journal of Chemical Education 87, 2010 (with 2 Hope undergaduate co-authors)
• 亚洲色吧淔retting about FRET: Failure of the Ideal Dipole Approximation,亚洲色吧� Biophysical Journal 96, 2009 (with 1 Hope undergaduate co-author)
• 亚洲色吧淔retting about FRET: Correlation between 魏 and R,亚洲色吧� Biophysical Journal 92, 2007 (with 3 Hope undergaduate co-authors)
• 亚洲色吧淗ybrid Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Simulations of Condensed Phase Spectral Properties: Evaluation of Simulation Parameters,亚洲色吧� Journal of Computational Chemistry 28, 2007 (with 2 Hope undergaduate co-authors)

Selected Institutional Service

• Co-director, Global Water Research Institute, 2022亚洲色吧損resent
• Hope Forward Selection Committee, 2021亚洲色吧損resent
• Director, Computational Science and Modeling Laboratory, 2005亚洲色吧損resent
• Faculty Compensation Task Force, 2018亚洲色吧�2020
• Presidential Transition Committee, 2018亚洲色吧�2019
• Department of Chemistry Executive Committee, 2017亚洲色吧�2019
• Department of Chemistry Course Scheduler, 2014亚洲色吧�2018
• Board of Trustees Faculty Representative, 2014亚洲色吧�2018
• Academic Affairs Board, 2010亚洲色吧�2012 (Chair 2011亚洲色吧�2012)

Outside the College

Dr. Krueger, his wife, and their two kids especially enjoy cooking and eating good food. They love travel, though that doesn亚洲色吧檛 happen as often as they亚洲色吧檇 like, and they are proud to be an active part of the Grace Episcopal Church community.