Short biography
I graduated in Biological Sciences from UAB, Barcelona, in 1991 and earned a PhD from the same university in 1996. I then joined WF van Gunsteren’s lab at ETH Zurich, a leader in the field of computational biomolecular modeling and simulation, where we conducted pioneering research on polypeptide folding using molecular dynamics methods. In 2002, I became an ICREA Research Professor and returned to UAB’s Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) to establish a Computational Biology group. My current research focuses mainly on developing strategies to combat multidrug-resistant bacterial infections through computational and experimental methods. Since 2005, I have been an Adjunct Professor at UAB's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and, more recently, I have joined the CIBER-BBN from Instituto de Salud Carlos III. From 2011 to 2017, I served as Director of IBB and currently act as Academic Director of Bioinformatics Barcelona (BIB), a non-profit association.
