Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

de Groot, Bert, Prof. Dr.


  • 1998 PhD in Biophysical Chemistry, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  • 1994 – 1998 PhD student, Lab of Prof. H.J.C. Berendsen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  • 1994 Degree in Chemistry, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  • 1989 – 1994 Chemistry studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  • 1998 – 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Group headed by Helmut Grubmüller, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
  • Since 2004 Head of the Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Research Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
  • 2009 Adjunct Professor Physics Faculty, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
  • 2011 – 2017 Editorial Board Member, Biophysical Journal
  • Since 2013 Editorial Board Member, PLOS Computational Biology



Major Research Interests
Structure-dynamics-function relationships in proteins, studied by computational techniques. In particular: molecular mechanism of water and ion channels; the use of reduced dimensionality methods to analyse and accelerate MD simulations; MD and other simulation techniques for use in structure elucidation and refinement based on experimental data (x-ray, NMR, EM); development of alternative simulation approaches like the CONCOORD method.


Homepage Department/Research Group
http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/de_groot/

ORCID: 0000-0003-3570-3534