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The Soft Matter and Interfaces Group
On-going effort to tell you how I (Ana Vila Verde) and my research group spend our time. You'll know I've pulled myself together when there is enough information here to make it useful (and when I'm confident enough to delete all the help links that tell me how to build a wiki...)
Dr. Ana Vila Verde (she)
WOS ResearcherID: H-7805-2013 ORCID: 0000-0003-0337-3972
Postal address University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics (AG Wolf), Lotharstr. 1, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Where I do my thinking: building MG, office 383
Email: ana.araujo-vila-verde@uni-due.de
We use particle-based simulation methods to investigate the structure and dynamics of soft matter and of interfaces, both biological and inorganic. We have currently these areas of interest: fluorinated proteins, water and ions, and mechanical properties of proteins. We use mainly classical molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo methods and a variety of levels of description of matter (fixed-charge or polarizable all-atom, coarse-grained), with emphasis on advanced simulation techniques to enhance sampling of phase space thus allowing the calculation of thermodynamic observables such as relative free energies.
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