2006: Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of Utah
Proton transport and solvation in complex environments. Gregory A. Voth, Chair

2000: B.S. Mathematics, Physics minor, University of Idaho

1998: B.S. Professional Chemistry, University of Idaho

2010-2011: Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago

2009-2010: Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah

2007-2009: Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Center for Integrated Nano Technologies, Sandia National Labs

2006: Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah

2004-2006: Research Assistant,
Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah

2002-2004: Research Assistant,
Department of Chemistry and Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Utah

2001: Henry Eyring Fellow,
Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Utah

1999-2000: Research Assistant,
Ecological and Conservation Genetics Laboratory, University of Idaho

1999: Research Assistant,
Hyperfine Interactions Laboratory, Washington State University

1998: Research Assistant,
Resonance Raman spectroscopy for the study of electron transfer, University of Idaho

Petersen, Matt K.; Lane, J. Mathew D.; Grest, G.S. Shear Rheology of Extended Nanoparticle. Physical Review E (2010), 82(1), 010201.

Heine, David R; Petersen, Matt K.; Grest, G.S. Effect of Particle Shape and Charge on Bulk Rheology of Nanoparticle Suspensions. Journal of Chemical Physics (2010), 132(18), 184509.

Petersen, Matt K.; Lechman, J. B.; Plimpton, S. J.; Grest, G.S.; in 't Veld, P.; Schunk, P. R. Mesoscale Hydrodynamics via Stochastic Rotation Dynamics: Comparison with Lennard-Jones Fluid. Journal of Chemical Physics (2010), 132(17), 174106.

in 't Veld, Pieter; Petersen, M. K.; Grest, G.S. Shear Thinning of Nanoparticle Suspensions. Physical Review E (2009), 79(2), 021401.

Brown, W. M.; Petersen, M. K.; Plimpton, S. J.; Grest, G.S. Liquid Crystal Nanodroplets in Solution. Journal of Chemical Physics (2009), 130(4), 044901.

Petersen, Matt K.; Hatt, Alison J.; Voth, Gregory A. Orientational Dynamics of Water in the Nafion Polymer Electrolyte Membrane and Its Relationship to Proton Transport. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2008), 112(26),7754-7761.

Swanson, Jessica M. J.; Maupin, C. Mark; Chen, Hanning; Petersen, Matt K.; Xu, Jiancong.; Wu, Yujie.; Voth, Gregory A. Proton Solvation and Transport in Aqueous and Biomolecular Systems: Insights from Computer Simulations. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2007), 111(17), 4300-4314 (feature article).

Petersen, Matt K.; Voth, Gregory A. Characterization of the Solvation and Transport of the Hydrated Proton in the Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membrane Nafion. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2006), 110(37), 18594-18600.

Petersen, Matt K.; Voth, Gregory A. Amphiphilic Character of the Hydrated Proton in Methanol-Water Solutions. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2006), 110(14), 7085-7089.

Burnham, Christian J.; Petersen, Matt K.; Day, Tyler J. F.; Iyengar, Srinivasan S.; Voth, Gregory A. The properties of ion-water clusters. II. Solvation structures of Na+, Cl-, and H+ clusters as a function of temperature. Journal of Chemical Physics (2006), 124(2), 024327

Petersen, Matt K.; Wang, Feng; Blake, Nick P.; Metiu, Horia; Voth, Gregory A. Excess Proton Solvation and Delocalization in a Hydrophilic Pocket of the Proton Conducting Polymer Membrane Nafion. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2005), 109(9), 3727-3730.

Lapid, Hadas; Agmon, Noam; Petersen, Matt K; Voth, Gregory A. A bond-order analysis of the mechanism for hydrated proton mobility in liquid water. Journal of Chemical Physics (2005), 122(1), 14506.

Iyengar, Srinivasan S; Petersen, Matt K; Day, Tyler J F; Burnham, Christian J; Teige, Virginia E; Voth, Gregory A. The properties of ion-water clusters. I. The protonated 21-water cluster. Journal of Chemical Physics (2005), 123(8), 084309.

Blake, Nick P.; Petersen, Matt K.; Voth, Gregory A.; Metiu, Horia. Structure of Hydrated Na-Nafion Polymer Membranes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2005), 109(51), 24244-24253.

Petersen, Matt K.; Iyengar, Srinivasan S.; Day, Tyler J. F.; Voth, Gregory A. The Hydrated Proton at the Water Liquid/Vapor Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2004), 108(39), 14804-14806.

Iyengar, Srinivasan S.; Burnham, Christian J.; Petersen, Matt K.; Voth, Gregory A. Modeling condensed-phase chemistry through molecular dynamics simulation. Computing in Science & Engineering (2003), 5(4), 31-35.

Invited
Shear Rheology Through Computer Simulation.
Corning Incorporated; Corning, New York (8/2008)

Improving Proton Transport Membranes: Lessons From Molecular Dynamics.
Eastern Washington University; Cheney, Washington (3/2007)

Explicit Proton Transport and Solvation in Simple Fluids and Hydrated Nafion.
Center for Integrated Nano Technology, Sandia National Laboratories-New Mexico;
Albuquerque, New Mexico (1/2007)

Conference
Stochastic Rotational Dynamics of Simulations of Nanocolloid Suspensions.
APS March 2009; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (3/2009)

Shear Thinning in Nanoparticle Suspensions.
APS March 2008; New Orleans, Louisiana (3/2008)

Effect of Nanoparticle Shape and Size on Shear Rheology.
APS March 2008; New Orleans, Louisiana (3/2008)

Proton Transport Coupling to Solvent Rearrangements in the Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membrane Nafion.
ECS spring 2007; Chicago, Illinois (5/2007)

Characterization of the Solvation and Transport of the Hydrated Proton in the Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membrane Nafion.
AIChE 2006 Annual Meeting; San Fransisco, California (11/2006)

Methods
Molecular Dynamics, Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Extended Ensemble MC (i.e. parallel tempering), Electronic Structure, QM/MM, experienced with force-field development and method development/implementation.

Codes
LAMMPS (C++ MD simulator), DL POLY (Fortran MD simulator), DL EVB and SCI DL EVB (Fortan/C reactive potential MD simulator), Gaussian/Gauss View, VMD (analysis/ molecular visualization).

Programming
Experienced with Fortran, C++, MPI, Linux/UNIX shell scripting.

OS/Computers
Experienced with Linux/UNIX, BSD/OSX, Windows. Familiar with various message passing implementations, i.e. Open MPI, MPICH, MVAPICH, SGI-MPT. Experienced with PBS and LSF batch scripting.