Dr. Marc Baaden (MB) is internationally recognized for research characterizing membrane proteins via high performance computing, comprising the development of novel bioinformatics methods and approaches offered to the scientific community. Being a physical chemist by training, he oriented his research towards biological systems and phenomena at membranes and interfaces. Water and ion transport play a particular role in these studies. Large scale simulations of membrane proteins and complex biological systems are a distinctive expertise as well as the association of bioinformatics, high performance computing and scientific visualization with experimental and clinical biomedical research.