For current members of the lab, click here.
We like to keep track of people that has spend some weeks to years in the lab. To add or correct names and current coordinates, contact us.
Postdoctoral researchers:
- Raúl Alcántara, BSC, Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Welcome Sanger Institute
- James Dalton, UAB, Ronin Institute Oxford
- Gianni de Fabritiis, GRIB, ICREA
- 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 Simulitary 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. PhD Thesis: “Development of a multiscale protocol for the study of energetics of protein dymanics“, co-supervisor: Ken A. Dill, Oct, 31st, 2013.
- Martin Floor, postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center. PhD Thesis: “Development of a framework for the computational design and evolution of enzymes“, co-supervisor Luis 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, adjunt faculty at Houston Community College; Baylor College of Medicine; Fort Bend ISD. PhD Thesis: “Electrostatic analisys the Ras active site“, Mar, 5th 2009.
- Adrián López García de Lomana, University of Zurich; Institute for Systems Biology in Washington; University of Iceland; 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 cofounder DevsHealth. PhD Thesis: “QM and QM/MM studies on organic and bioinorganic systems“, co-supervisor: Feliu Maseras, 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 Center for Integrative Systems Biology, postdoc Kings 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 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; Global Genomics product manager at FAGRON; Director of Tech Management at MWCapital
- Marc Oliver Dalmau. MSc thesis: “Towards Accurate Prediction of Protein Phylogeny: An Analysis Using MutaGAN”, September 2023.
- Xavier Rovira, Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier; IIBB-CSIC
- Joan Teyra, Biotechnology Center TU Dresden; CBBR, Toronto; principal scientist Icosagen Group
- Miguel Hernández, software tester at NOKIA; software engineer AWS
- 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:
- 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.
- Cristina Charneco, Saber interactive Spain
- Mateo Castañeda Ríos. MSc thesis: “Evolució dirigida d’una proteasa que degrada el gluten”, January-June 2022.
- 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 student: “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.
- 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
- 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
- Nanaxhi Colomer, UCL, Innovations scientist ALTRO, PA consulting; BAT.
- Norma Díaz-Vergara, AFFINImeter, ONEBOX; SEAT Code.
- Marta Dies, UPC, senior data scientist VISTAPRINT
- Mª Angeles 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 student: “Web tools for protein structure analysis training”, September-October 2022, Usküdar Universitesi
- Ignacio Fernández Galván, Universidad de Extremadura, researcher at Uppsala University
- Gian Pietro Miscione, Università di Bologna; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
- Sai Phanindra Venkatapurapu, University of North Carolina; Immunetrics, Manager at PwC