Grant Bunker, Professor of Physics

bunker@iit.edu

Office: 392 Life Sciences Building

Phone: 312-567-3385

FAX: 312-567-3576

Illinois Institute of Technology

3101 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60616

Professional Interests

Biophysics, Synchrotron Radiation, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, Instrumentation, Novel Data Analysis Methods and Software, Computational Physics, Chemistry, Biology; Complex Systems.

Biophysics; X-ray absorption spectroscopy of metalloproteins; synchrotron radiation techniques and instrumentation; data analysis and molecular modeling; computational physics, chemistry, and biology.

Representative Publications

• "Group-fitted ab initio single- and multiple-scattering EXAFS Debye-Waller factors" Nicholas Dimakis and Grant Bunker Phys. Rev. B. Rapid Communications, 65 201103(R), 10 May 2002

• "Practical Regularization Methods for Analysis of EXAFS Spectra", G. Khelashvili and G. Bunker, J. Synch. Rad. 6, 271- 273 (1999)

• Initial results on logarithmic spiral bent laue analyzer for fluorescence x-ray absorption spectroscopy, C. Karanfil, D. Chapman, G. Bunker, C. Segre, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol 73 no 3, p 1616, 2002

• "X-ray Absorption Spectrometers", G. Bunker, in Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry, p2447-2554, Academic Press, 1999