H. Schwalbe acts as coordinator of the project. He oversees the progress of the proposed research. He coordinates between different international partners within Covid19-NMR. He is involved in overall project planning and conduct.

He is an expert in NMR-based structural biology of RNA, proteins and their complexes. His group has experience in industry-academia-collaboration in the field of NMR-guided drug discovery.

He has authored more than 450 original publications, has contributed to more than 120 PDB entries, his h-index is 60.