Short biography
I studied Biological Sciences at UAB, Barcelona, where I graduated in 1991 and obtained my PhD in 1996. I then moved to the laboratory of WF van Gunsteren at ETH Zurich, an international reference in the field of computational modeling and simulation of biomolecular systems. These were extraordinary years in which we performed seminal work on the simulation of polypeptide folding using molecular dynamics methods. In 2002 I was appointed ICREA Research Professor and returned with this position to the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) of the UAB, starting a group in Computational Biology. Today, our work is primarily concerned with the identification and development of new strategies to combat infections by multidrug-resistant bacteria, using computational and experimental approaches. I have also been an Adjunct Professor at the UAB since 2005 and, more recently, I have joined the CIBER-BBN (ISCIII). During the period 2011-2017 I served as Director of the IBB.
