Willy Wriggers develops statistical methods for understanding biomolecular systems through simulations. He came to DESRES from the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, where he was a tenured Associate Professor of health informatics and molecular medicine. His research interests are time series analysis, multi-scale modeling, molecular imaging, and computational geometry. His scientific career has also included a faculty position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), and postdoctoral positions in both electron microscopy (Department of Cell Biology, TSRI) as well as theoretical chemistry (University of California, San Diego). Willy earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for his work on molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecular machines.