Carlos Simoes earned his PharmD and his PhD from the University of Coimbra (UC). He has been a collaborator at the Centro de Estudos Farmaceuticos (at UC), visiting researcher at the Istituto di Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare, in Italy, and PhD student at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (at UC). During his PhD studies, he spent three years working with the Bioinformatics group of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom. More recently, he was a research fellow at PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe. In the several projects he has been involved in, he has worked on multiple computational approaches to study biological systems, with particular attention to protein dynamics, protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions, exploring virtual screening and rational drug design approaches. Carlos Simoes has published several scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and was the receiver of the “Connecting Science to People” award in 2010, promoted by the Portuguese Society of Biochemistry and the company Take the Wind. At present, Carlos Simoes is manager and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at BSIM2.

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