
This synergetic interaction across scientific disciplines is still a vivid area of multidisciplinary collaboration and we can expect that it will continue to develop and bear new fruit.

Hence, the foundations of this new area of theoretical physics have evolved naturally in close collaboration with areas of mathematics. The proposal, understanding and foundation of new algorithms to analyse the emergence of the collective behaviour of many-body systems has required the development and use of new concepts and tools. They have opened a new venue in our understanding of natural phenomena and in our ability to address basic Molecular modelling and computer simulations have played a fundamental role in the development of science since the second half of the last century.

Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Director of CECAM Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Director of CECAM, lifts the lid on the field of computer simulations and the crucial role they have played in the development of science since the second half of the last century
