Ilpo Vattulainen

The Biological Physics group (about 20 members) focuses on computational biophysics. Its goal is to improve the understanding of biological processes, thus promoting health, and to reveal the molecular-level mechanisms of disease. The focus of the research is, for example, neurological diseases, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers and eye diseases, as well as the development of computational methods and data analytics (AI/ML). During the last 5 years, the group has published more than 120 articles (incl. Science, Nat Methods, Nat Mater, Nat Commun, eLife, PNAS, etc.), about half of them in collaboration with more than 30 different experimental groups. The group has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant and (three times) the Center of Excellence project by the Research Council of Finland.