Autor: Xavier Barril

F Javier Luque is a Professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry in the University of Barcelona, and leader of the Computational Biology and Drug design group at the Institute of Biomedicine. He received his BA degree in Chemistry from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 1985 and his Ph D in Chemistry from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 1989. He joined the Departament de Fisicoquimica in 1986, and was appointed Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry in 1992, and in 2003, he was promoted to the position of Full Professor. His research interests are the theoretical representation of chemical reactivity and the modeling of solvation effects, the simulation of biochemical systems, with particular emphasis in the dynamical description of the structure-function relationships in proteins, and in the interaction between ligand and macromolecular receptors, specially orientated to structure-based drug discovery.