Mu-Hyun (Mookie) Baik
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
- Phone
- (812) 856-0454
- Office
- Chemistry Building, C263B
- Web Site
- baik.chem.indiana.edu
Other Titles
- Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
Research Interests
Chemical Informatics / Computational, Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Physical Chemistry
Education
- Ph.D. in Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000
Biography
Mookie was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1970. In December 1980, he and his family moved to Dinslaken, a small town in Germany close to Düsseldorf. After obtaining a “Vordiplom” (B.S.) in chemistry from the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf in 1994, he came to the United States as an exchange graduate student on a one-year fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Chemistry Department of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He quickly fell in love with Chapel Hill and decided to stay, obtaining his Ph.D. from UNC in 2000 under the supervision of Professor Cynthia K. Schauer. He then moved to Columbia University to work with Professor Richard A. Friesner and in collaboration with Professor Stephen J. Lippard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a number of different projects all targeted at understanding on a molecular level the chemical reactivity of the anticancer drug cisplatin, a number of metalloenzymes, and organometallic complexes.
Mookie’s research centers around examining complex chemical reactions using large-scale quantum chemical models and developing novel methods of extracting chemical information from these calculations. The goal is to develop an artificial expert system that can be used to efficiently search for a novel and rational design strategies for better anticancer drugs, robust industrial catalysts or new materials, and discover the mode of action of metalloenzymes.
