Rui Brito is Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (UC) and Principal Investigator of the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (at UC). He holds a BSc in Biochemistry from the UC, and a PhD in Biochemistry from Rice University, Houston, USA. He carried out post-doctoral studies at the Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences, Oxford University, UK, and since then has been visiting scientist at the University of Cincinnati and Johns Hopkins University, USA, and the Leibniz-Institut fur Molekulare Pharmakologie, in Berlin, Germany. Rui Brito has dedicated his scientific career to the study of protein structure, stability, folding and aggregation, with special emphasis on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative amyloid pathologies. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international journals. Presently, Rui Brito leads the Structural and Computational Biology group at the CNC, where he supervises a team of 10 researchers. He is director of the NMR spectroscopy platform at UC and member of the scientific board of the NMR national network (PTNMR). He is also the National Coordinator of the Ibercivis volunteer computing platform, and member of the Executive Committee of the Portuguese Center for Integrated Structural Biology – INSTRUCT Affiliate Center for Portugal. Currently, Rui Brito is manager and Chief Science Officer (CSO) at BSIM2.

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