Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP), UCIBIO/REQUIMTE, Porto, Portugal

Sérgio F. Sousa is a computational chemist specialized in Computational Enzymatic Catalysis (QM/MM), molecular dynamics simulations, quantum mechanics, computer-aided drug discovery, docking and virtual Screening.

He graduated in Chemistry in 2003 at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, before pursuing a PhD between 2003-2007 on Computational Chemistry at the same University under the supervision of Prof. Maria João Ramos.

He was awarded the Prémio de Estímulo à Investigação Gulbenkian in 2009 for a Project entitled “Anti-target Docking: The Other Side of the Mirror”. He was also the Principal researcher in two FCT projects focusing on the development of computational drug design methods and participated in several other projects at the interface between theory and experiment. He has over 75 articles, reviews and book chapters with around 2500 citations.

He currently leads the BioSIM research group at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, a group that aims to bridge the gap between theory and experiment by applying and developing state-of-the-art computational tools focusing on Enzymatic Catalysis and Drug Discovery.