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Matthias Heyden is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences and an affiliate of the Center for Biological Physics. He joined ASU in 2017 after prior roles as a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on atomistic simulations of molecular systems to study solvation processes, vibrational dynamics in biomolecules, and novel computational methods for simulating crowded biomolecular environments.
Education: Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude) in Chemistry from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2010), B.Sc. in Biochemistry (2004). His work bridges computational chemistry and biophysics, with applications in protein-ligand interactions, enzyme catalysis, and cellular crowding effects. He leads the Heyden Lab and maintains a research website at CompMolSci.com.
Research Interests: His group uses molecular dynamics simulations to explore solvation thermodynamics, correlated vibrational motion in biomolecules, and large-scale protein simulations. Key areas include understanding solvation's role in biomolecular processes, analyzing vibrational signatures for energy propagation, and modeling complex cellular environments. Techniques developed by his lab enable spatially resolved analysis of solvation free energy and entropy.
Service & Professional Roles: Co-chair of the TSRC Workshop on Water Structure and Dynamics (2019), faculty advisor for Biophest (2019), and member of professional societies including the American Chemical Society and Biophysical Society. His research has been published in high-impact journals such as Journal of Physical Chemistry, Biophysical Journal, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
