Salt ions differ in their ability to salt out or salt in proteins from aqueous solutions. Their effects on protein stability are known to be connected to ion hydration, ion pairing and ion-specific interactions with the protein. In general, cations follow the Hofmeister series for protein stabilisation behaviour, while for anions this is only true for proteins where the backbone effect is stronger than that of the positively charged side chains. Since at low concentrations electrostatic effects are expected to be the most significant, ion-specific effects become dominant at high salt concentrations. However, the molecular details of how ions interact with proteins have not yet been fully understood. In this thesis, using different nu...