Ivan Barvík

Ivan Barvík is a Researcher at the Department of Biomolecular Physics within the Faculty of Physics at Charles University, where he has been affiliated since 1999. His work bridges computational physics, biophysics, and drug design.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. (1995) in Mathematical and Computer Modeling from Charles University, supervised by Doc. RNDr. Jiří Bok CSc.
  • Mgr. (1995) in Mathematical and Computer Modeling in Physics and Technology from Charles University, supervised by RNDr. Miroslav Kotrla CSc.

Research Interests: Barvík specializes in molecular dynamics simulations and quantum-chemical calculations, applying these methods to rational drug design and biological membranes. He focuses on computational techniques for modeling biomolecules, including free energy calculations and parallelization via OpenMP, MPI, and CUDA.

Teaching: He teaches computer modeling of biomolecules, molecular dynamics, advanced programming methods, and numerical methods in computational physics, contributing to both undergraduate and graduate education.

Supervision: Barvík has mentored numerous students, including Artem Rakhimbekov and Krystof Prusa, and supervised theses on topics like computational physics, biomolecular simulations, and numerical methods.

Tools and Collaborations: He utilizes software such as CHARMM-gui, NAMD, Gromacs, and Gaussian, and is associated with resources like AlphaFold3 and MetaCentrum.