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Postdoctoral researchers:
- Raúl Alcántara, BSC, Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Senior Software Developer at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (CASM Informatics group)
- James Dalton, UAB, Ronin Institute Oxford
- Gianni de Fabritiis, GRIB, ICREA Research Professor
- Giovanni Giupponi, RedBooth, Cloud Platform Team Lead Architect at HP
- Irene Meliciani, Alpha-Cross Nutrition
- Pau Marc Muñoz, senior researcher at the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research
PhD students:
- Montserrat Barbany, IBMB-CSIC, Mind the Byte, High School teacher. PhD Thesis: “Three Dimensional Simularity of Molecules with biological interest on the basis of molecular interaction potentials“, co-supervisor: Ferran Sanz, Feb 10th 2006.
- Nils Drechsel, Oklahoma State University; Head of Data Science at Visokio, Lisbon. PhD Thesis: “Development of a multiscale protocol for the study of energetics of protein dynamics“, co-supervisor: Ken A. Dill (UCSF), Oct 31st 2013.
- Martin Floor, postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). PhD Thesis: “Development of a framework for the computational design and evolution of enzymes“, co-supervisor: Lluís Agulló, Feb 4th 2022.
- Michael A. Johnston, research manager at IBM. PhD Thesis: “Development of a molecular simulator and its application to the study of biomolecular dynamics“, Mar 12th 2009.
- Abdul Kareem Khan, adjunct faculty at Houston Community College; Baylor College of Medicine; Fort Bend ISD. PhD Thesis: “Electrostatic analysis of the Ras active site“, Mar 5th 2009.
- Adrián López García de Lomana, University of Zurich; Institute for Systems Biology, Washington; University of Iceland; Associate Professor at the Universitat de Vic–Universitat Central de Catalunya. PhD Thesis: “Computational approaches to the modelling of topological and dynamical aspects of biochemical networks“, Oct 19th 2010.
- Alfons Nonell, Founder and CEO Mind the Byte; CEO and co-founder DevsHealth. PhD Thesis: “QM and QM/MM studies on organic and bioinorganic systems“, co-supervisor: Feliu Maseres, Oct 16th 2008.
MSc students:
- Anna Cano Rifà, Hipra
- Vincenzo Capece, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Milano; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE); ETH Zurich
- Valentina Carapella, DPhil student at the Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology; postdoc King’s College London; Perspectum Diagnostics Ltd; Aurora Energy Research
- Carles Corbí, CCBR; Computational Scientist at Cyclica
- Carla Feliu. MSc thesis: “Discovering cysteine protease covalent inhibitors using deep learning”, September 2023. Current: Private Foundation Món Clínic Barcelona
- Tiziano Gallo, Biozentrum; CREDS
- Àlex Gómez-Garrido, Laboratoris Esteve, Barcelona; WeLab Barcelona; business process consultant at Zifo RnD Solutions
- Jorge González García. MSc thesis: “HRAS Physical Feature Analysis: Predicting Protein Activation Through a Random Forest Classifier”, September 2023. Current: PhD student at Trinity College Dublin.
- Albert Mascarell, Founder and CEO, aScidea (acquired); start-up consultant accredited by ACCIÓ; mentor and professor at UPF Barcelona School of Management; leadership roles at Fagron Genomics / Fagron Group (2018–2023); CEO and Managing Partner at BHV Partners
- Joan Mora Peralta. MSc thesis: “Exploració conformacional de la proteïna Mpro del SARS-CoV-2”. Current: AOSOM.
- Marc Oliver Dalmau. MSc thesis: “Towards Accurate Prediction of Protein Phylogeny: An Analysis Using MutaGAN”, September 2023. Internship at Almirall.
- Xavier Rovira, Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier; IIBB-CSIC
- Joan Teyra, Biotechnology Center TU Dresden; CBBR, Toronto; principal scientist at Icosagen Group
- Miguel Hernández, software tester at NOKIA; software engineer at AWS
- Ade Raissa Zuseh, MSCA Doctoral Fellow at ESPCI-PSL
- Catalina Rebassa Riera. MSc thesis: “Machine learning methods for identification of NRAS inhibitors”, September 2023. Current: R&D SPINREACT
- Pau Rué, Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; University of Cambridge; Director of Data at Typeform; Founding member at Alinia AI
- Dimitris Vrachnos
BSc students:
- Aina Altimiras. Undergrad project: “Single cell transcriptomics analysis of immune response in HIV vaccination trials”, June–September 2025
- Carla Batlle. BSc thesis: “Anàlisi bioinformàtica de l’expressió gènica diferencial en cèl·lules beta i alfa pancreàtiques humanes en el context de la diabetis tipus 2”, Github repo, January–June 2025
- David Bedoya Rivera. Project: “Markov Models analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories” (github repo), May–July 2024.
- Joan Cabanas Ballvé. BSc thesis: “Mapatge AlphaFold2 mitjançant un estudi computacional per les diferents estructures de les proteïnes”, January–June 2022.
- Éric Carrascosa Iglesias. Undergrad project: “Development of a VR implementation of protein interactions visualization”, July–September 2026.
- Mateo Castañeda Ríos. BSc thesis: “Evolució dirigida d’una proteasa que degrada el gluten”, January–June 2022.
- Cristina Charneco, Saber Interactive Spain
- Gemma Coll Vila. BSc thesis: “Modelització i simulació molecular de la limonè epòxid hidrolasa (LEH) com a base per a futurs estudis EVB”, January–June 2026
- Pau Domínguez Sorribas. BSc thesis: “Simulacions moleculars de l’efecte d’un disacàrid en la dinàmica d’un enzim”, January–June 2024.
- Efe Donduran. Erasmus practical training: “Gene differential expression in speech disorders”, September 2023–January 2024.
- Martí Férriz. BSc thesis: “Simulacions moleculars de la reactivitat catalítica de la Carboxipeptidasa A1”, January–June 2023.
- Elisabet Gregori-Puigjané, postdoctoral researcher at UCSF; Novartis; Chemotargets
- Dominique Monferrer, Asphalion
- Anna Moya Mujal. Project: “Exploring protocols for Single cell RNASeq data analysis”, May–July 2024.
- Marc Pons Garcia. Project: “Computer aided directed evolution of epoxy hydrolase by means of empirical valence bond (EVB) calculations”, February–June 2025. Current: HYPRA
- Juan Carlos Ramírez. BSc thesis: “Revisión sistemática del uso de aprendizaje automatizado en la exploración de relaciones estructura-función de proteínas”, January–September 2023. Current: bet365
- Sergio Rubio, Thomson Reuters; Consultant at Veeva Systems
- Carla Soler Páez. BSc thesis: “Implementació i avaluació de condicions esfèriques de contorn per al càlcul d’energies lliures d’hidratació”, January–June 2026.
- Marc Tomàs Moncunill. BSc thesis: “Simulacions moleculars de l’impacte del triflouroetanol en la conformació de la regió C-terminal de diverses variants de la proteïna Reelina”, Github repo, January–June 2025
- Claudia Vicente Comorera. BSc thesis: “Metabolic state prediction at single-cell resolution” (github repo), January–June 2024.
Research associates:
- Luís Agulló, PhD in Biochemistry, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the UVic-UCC
- Gianluigi Caltabiano, Computational medicine laboratory, UAB
- Guillem Casanovas, Casa Tarradellas
- Nanaxhi Colomer, UCL; innovations scientist ALTRO; PA Consulting; BAT
- Miquel de Cáceres, CREAF
- Norma Díaz-Vergara, AFFINImeter; ONEBOX; SEAT Code
- Marta Dies, UPC; senior data scientist at VISTAPRINT
- Mª Ángeles Millán, CSIC
- Sinan Mutlu, software engineer at REO-TEK; senior engineer at Samsung Research
- Joaquim Paretas, high-school teacher at Col·legi Sant Bonaventura
- Julien Renggli, Zurich Med Tech; Nanolive SA; BOBST
- David Sportouch, Quant, investment banking; Elwood
- Denis Tosic, system tester at Technica Engineering GmbH; engineering manager at Google
Visitors:
- César Luís Ávila, Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas – CONICET – UNT
- Mariame Boumaaiz. Erasmus practical training: “Web tools for protein structure analysis training”, September–October 2022, Üsküdar Üniversitesi
- Marci Yineth Castillo Tarazona, PhD candidate, Universidad de los Andes
- Ignacio Fernández Galván, Universidad de Extremadura; researcher at Uppsala University
- Ariadna Llop Peiró, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- Gian Pietro Miscione, Università di Bologna; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
- Sai Phanindra Venkatapurapu, University of North Carolina; Immunetrics; Manager at PwC