• CSElab (ETH, Zurich)
• PhD in Biophysics and Computational Biology (2010, UIUC, supervisor: Prof. Klaus Schulten)
• BSc. in Chemistry (1999) and Applied Mathematics (2000, UPCH)

Publications

• Cruz-Chu ER and Schulten K.   Computational microscopy of the role of protonable surface residues in nanoprecipitation oscillations.   ACS Nano, 4:4463-4474, 2010.
• Cruz-Chu ER, Ritz T, Siwy ZS and Schulten K.   Molecular control of ionic conduction in polymer nanopores.   Faraday Discussions, 143:47-62, 2009.
• Cruz-Chu ER,  Aksimentiev A and Schulten K.   Ionic current rectification through silica nanopores.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113:1850-1862, 2009.
• Aksimentiev A, Brunner RK, Cruz-Chu E, Comer J and Schulten K.   Modeling transport through synthetic nanopores.   IEEE Nanotechnology, 3:20-28, 2009.
• Aksimentiev A, Brunner R, Cohen J, Comer J, Cruz-Chu E, Hardy D, Rajan A, Shih A, Sigalov G, Yin Y and Schulten K.   Computer modeling in biotechnology, a partner in development.   In Protocols in Nanostructure Design, Methods in Molecular Biology, 181-234. Humana Press, 2008.
• Lu D, Aksimentiev A, Shih AY, Cruz-Chu E, Freddolino PL, Arkhipov A and Schulten K.   The role of molecular modeling in bionanotechnology.   Physical Biology, 3:S40-S53, 2006.
• Cruz-Chu ER, Aksimentiev A and Schulten K.   Water-silica force field for simulating nanodevices.   Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110:21497-21508, 2006.
• Dutta K, Shi HH, Cruz-Chu ER, Kami K and Ghose R.   Dynamic influences on a high-affinity, high-specificity interaction involving the C-terminal SH3 domain of p67phox.   Biochemistry, 43:8094-8106, 2004.
• Mancusso R, Cruz E, Cataldi M, Mendoza C, Fuchs J, Wang H, Yang X, Tasayco ML.   Reversal of negative charges on the surface of Escherichia coli thioredoxin: pockets versus protrusions.   Biochemistry, 43:3835-3843, 2004.