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Interests
Computational Chemistry and Genomics
Modeling and Simulating Metabolic Pathways and Reactions from Combining Biochemical and Chemical Information
Chemical Reactions of Organic Molecules
Electron Transfer Processes in Organic Compounds
Electron Transfer Theory (ET)
Combining different advanced and modern techniques in Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry
Computer Programming and Databases
My interests in the application of modern Computational and Information Chemistry techniques to model Metabolic Pathways and complement existing molecular Biology Databases with Cheminformatic Technology is quite a recent research interest, but is something really exciting, and offers many research possibilities. I am undertaken this research within the group of Dr. Christos Ouzounis.
I finished my undergraduate studies at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 1985. My background is principally in physical and computational chemistry, although I took courses in biochemistry, cell biology, and organic chemistry.
I also took a postgraduate course in Pharmacological Compound Design and in Molecular Mechanisms of action of Antibiotics.
My interest in computational chemistry and its applications into the study of diverse processes in organic systems came from my graduate studies. I took my PhD from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, modelling charge transfer mechanisms in polyacetylene.
This gave me an interest in pursueing research into the application of modern computational chemistry methods to the design of materials.
In 1996 I held a post-doctoral researcher position working at the University of Mons-Hainaut as part of SELOA --- a European wide multi-disciplinary project which is studying and designing (using different computational chemistry techniques) new organic materials which may be suitable for use as active components in electronic devices.
This research aimed at looking for appropriate changes in substituent groups on existing compounds, which improved their properties for use in a variety of devices.
Quite a lot of the research work that I have done has involved writing and developing codes for novel applications.
Career
1997-Present
EBI visitor, European Bioinformatics Inst. (EBI), (UK).
Computational Chemistry and Chemical Information Techniques applied to Molecular Biology databases, group of Dr. C. Ouzounis.group of Dr. C. Ouzounis
1996-1997
Researcher, Service Materiaux Nouveaux, Universite de Mons--Hainaut (Belgium)
Computational Chemistry methods applied to the characterization, study, and design of new organic materials suitable for use as active components of electronic devices.
1991-1996
PhD in Physical Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) with Prof. Sven Larsson
Thesis: Theoretical studies on electronic structure, spectra conductivity of pristine and alkali doped polyacetylene
1988-1991
Research Assistant, Instituto Rocasolano, C.S.I.C, Madrid (Spain)
Study of enzyme reaction mechanisms, activity and inhibition by antibiotics.
1985-1988
Research Assistant, Inst. Food and Animal Nutrition, C.S.I.C, Cordoba (Spain)
Chemical analysis for the evaluation of the nutritive contents of prepared animal food and its assimilation by the animal.
1985-1987
Grado de Licenciatura (Physical Chemistry), Universidad de Cordoba (Spain)
1978-1984
Licenciatura in Physical Chemistry, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)
Languages
Spanish (mothertongue), Swedish (good level), English (fluent), French (good level).
Training post-graduate courses
1995 European Summerschool in Quantum Chemistry Lund University, Sweden
1990 Science and Technology of Materials CSIC, Madrid
1988 Pharmacological Compound Design S.T. de Quimica Farmaceutica
1987 Photophysics Universidad Autonoma
1987 Molecular Mechanisms of action of de Antibiotics Madrid (Spain)
Other Interests
Practicing Aikido, socialising with friends, drawing cartoons, nature, music, training my language skills.
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