Omar Valsson
University of North Texas
Chemistry
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Education

PhD, University of Twente, 2012.
Major: Physics
Dissertation Title: Understanding visual absorption from first principles
MSc, University of Iceland, 2008.
Major: Physics
BS, University of Iceland, 2006.
Major: Physics

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
CHEM 3520, Physical Chemistry, 4 courses.
CHEM 6940, Individual Research, 3 courses.

Directed Student Learning

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (January 27, 2023 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (December 22, 2022 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (September 1, 2022 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (July 1, 2022 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Physics. (March 28, 2022 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (January 16, 2022 – Present).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (September 15, 2022 – December 14, 2022).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (September 23, 2022 – October 20, 2022).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (May 9, 2022 – June 29, 2022).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (February 10, 2022 – March 28, 2022).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Journal Article
Henin, J., Lelievre, T., Shirts, M. R., Valsson, O., Delemotte, L. (2022). Enhanced Sampling Methods for Molecular Dynamics Simulations [Article v1.0]. 4, 1583. https://livecomsjournal.org/index.php/livecoms/article/view/v4i1e1583
Petersen, N., Girard, M., Riedinger, A., Valsson, O. (2022). The Crucial Role of Solvation Forces in the Steric Stabilization of Nanoplatelets. Nano Letters. 22,(24), 9847–9853.
Rydzewski, J., Chen, M., Ghosh, T., Valsson, O. (2022). Reweighted Manifold Learning of Collective Variables from Enhanced Sampling Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18, 7179–7192.
Pampel, B., Valsson, O. (2022). Improving the Efficiency of Variationally Enhanced Sampling with Wavelet-Based Bias Potentials. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18, 4127-4141.
Software Tutorial
Valsson, O. (2022). PLUMED Masterclass 22.11: Variationally enhanced sampling with PLUMED. https://www.plumed.org/doc-master/user-doc/html/masterclass-22-11.html

Presentations Given

Invited Talk

Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Erice School: Exploring and Quantifying Rough Free Energy Landscapes, Sampling Rare Event Energy Landscapes via a Birth-Death Process Augmented Langevin Dynamics, Erice, Italy. (2022).

Lecture

Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Chem 3010 UNT - Research Presentation, Biomolecular Simulations Understanding Long Timescale Phenomena in Chemical and Soft Matter Systems with Novel Simulations Techniques, United States of America. (2022).

Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), Chem 5010 UNT - Research Presentation, Biomolecular Simulations Understanding Long Timescale Phenomena in Chemical and Soft Matter Systems with Novel Simulations Techniques, United States of America. (2022).

Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), PLUMED Mastercalss: Variationally Enhanced Sampling (VES) Module, Variationally Enhanced Sampling, Online, United States of America. (2022 – 2022).

Oral Presentation

Valsson, O. (Author & Presenter), The 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, New Developments of Variationally Enhanced Sampling, Baltimore, USA, United States of America. (2022).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Valsson, O. (Principal), "Subaward from the NSF CAREER Grant of Oliverio Andrussi at Boise State University," Sponsored by NSF - Subaward from Boise State, Federal, $42166 Funded. (January 16, 2023 – May 31, 2023).

Service

University Service

Committee Chair, Administrator Evaluation Committee. (November 17, 2022 – Present).

Committee Member, Digital Public Relations Committee. (April 1, 2022 – Present).

Special Institutional Assignment, Departmental Photographer. (January 16, 2022 – Present).

Committee Member, Computational Chemistry Assistant Professor Search Committee. (September 16, 2022 – February 15, 2023).

Professional Service

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. (2023 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chemical Science. (2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C. (2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. (2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Communications. (2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. (2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, RSC Advances. (2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, The Journal of Chemical Physics. (2022 – Present).

Other, 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Baltimore. (January 1, 2022 – October 7, 2022).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NSF DMR - Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT). (May 2022 – May 2022).

Public Service

Member, The PLUMED consortium. (2019 – Present).