Professor Klein’s research combines computational and experimental studies of protein structure, dynamics and function with particular emphasis on membrane proteins. She has published over 150 papers and has received a number of awards including the FP7 People Funded Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship, the Sofya Kovalevskaya Award of the Humboldt Foundation, a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award of the Biophysical Society for her “remarkable work in computational biology embracing the full spectrum of experimental biophysics.”