Protein structure prediction, including predicting interactions and dynamics of proteins and large complexes. Björn is at the center of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. He did his postdoc with David Baker and he laid the groundwork for AlphaFold and has also published several improvements of the software.

Björn Wallner
Linköping University
Key Publications
AFsample2 predicts multiple conformations and ensembles with AlphaFold2
Communications Biology, 2025
MassiveFold: unveiling AlphaFold’s hidden potential with optimized and parallelized massive sampling
Nature Computational Science, 2024
Unmasking AlphaFold to integrate experiments and predictions in multimeric complexes
Nature Communications, 2024
DockQ v2: improved automatic quality measure for protein multimers, nucleic acids, and small molecules
Bioinformatics, 2024