Matti Javanainen

I am an Assistant Professor and the head of the BioInterfaces research group at the Computational Physics Laboratory. We use molecular dynamics simulations to probe the structure, energetics, and dynamics of biological interfaces composed of lipids and proteins, such as monolayers and cellular membranes. We are also involved in various flavours of model and method development.

Biomembrane structure and dynamics, lipid monolayer structure and dynamics, pulmonary surfactant, lipid–protein interactions, force field development, simulation methodology development

membrane biophysics, physical chemistry, computational biophysics