Christopher R. Iacovella

Biographical Sketch:

Research Assistant Professor — (2012-present) The Cummings Group @ Vanderbilt University The McCabe Group @ Vanderbilt University Postdoctoral Research Associate — (2009-2012) The Cummings Group @ Vanderbilt University Visiting Junior Scientist — (2011) Institute for Condensed Matter Physics @ National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ph.D. Chemical Engineering — (2003-2009) The Glotzer Group @ The University of Michigan B.S. Chemical Engineering — (1999-2003) Chemical Engineering @ The University at Buffalo

Selected Publications:

• Summers AZ, Gilmer JB, Iacovella CR, Cummings PT, McCabe C (2020) MoSDeF, a Python Framework Enabling Large-Scale Computational Screening of Soft Matter: Application to Chemistry-Propery Relationships in Lubricating Monolayer Films, J. Chem. Theory Comput., accepted
  
• Moore TC, Hartkamp R, Iacovella CR, Bunge AL, McCabe C (2018) The Influence of Ceramide Tail Length on the Structure of Bilayers Composed of Stratum Corneum Lipids, Biophysical Journal, 114(1) pp113-125
• Black J, Iacovella CR, Cummings PT, McCabe C, (2015) Molecular Dynamics Study of Alkylsilane Monolayers on Realistic Amorphous Silica Surfaces, Langmuir, 31 (10), pp 3086–3093
• Moore TC, Iacovella CR, McCabe C, (2014) Derivation of Coarse-grained Potentials via Multistate Iterative Boltzmann Inversion,The Journal of Chemical Physics, 140, 224104
• Guo S, Moore TC, Iacovella CR, Strickland LA, McCabe C, (2013) Simulation Study of the Structure and Phase Behavior of Ceramide Bilayers and the Role of Lipid Head Group Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 9 (11), pp 5116–5126
• French WR, Iacovella CR, Rungger I, Souza A, Sanvito S, Cummings PT (2013) Atomistic Simulations of Highly Conductive Molecular Transport Junctions Under Realistic Conditions, Nanoscale, 5 pp 3654-3659
• Iacovella CR, Keys AS, Glotzer SC  (2011) Self Assembly of Soft Matter Quasicrystals and Their Approximants, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, pp 20935–20940
• Keys AS, Iacovella CR, Glotzer SC, (2011) Characterizing Structure Through Shape Matching and Applications to Self Assembly, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2, pp 263–285