Organizing Committee Member
Michal Sabat
Professor
University of Virginia
USA
Biography
Michal Sabat received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Wroclaw, Poland, in 1976. He started his postdoctoral work with Professor James Ibers at the Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1980 and followed with a postdoc with Professor Muttaya Sundaralingam at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. In 1983, he was offered a senior research scientist position at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) laboratory in Florence, Italy, where he worked with Dr. Carlo Mealli. In 1986, he returned to Northwestern University as a faculty member in charge of X-ray crystallography and molecular modeling. In 1990, he started a position at the Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, to become Director of the Molecular Structure Laboratory. In 2010, he joined the Nanoscale Materials Characterization Facility (NMCF) at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, to become the lead of the Applied X-Ray Science section.
Research Area
His research interests span from X-ray crystallography to various methods of applied X-ray science, including: powder diffraction techniques, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), X-ray computed tomography (XCT) and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. He has also performed extensive quantum chemical calculations on several metal-containing biological systems in collaboration with Professors Pavel Hobza and Jiri Sponer of the Czech Republic, as well molecular modeling of protein-drug interactions.