Horacio Pérez-Sánchez
Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing group (BIO-HPC), Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia. Computational drug discovery · UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia, Spain
About this expert
Horacio leads the BIO-HPC group at UCAM, where his team builds structural bioinformatics and machine-learning methods for drug discovery and runs them on high performance computing infrastructure. His career has run through Spain, France and Germany, with two Marie Curie fellowships along the way, and he has held a full-time permanent research position at UCAM since 2013. The published record is 210 JCR-indexed articles, 109 of them in first-quartile journals and 34 in the first decile, with an h-index of 41 and around 6,600 citations. He is corresponding author on 76. Eleven PhD theses have been read under his supervision and six more are in progress, he is a named inventor on 11 patents of which 5 are licensed, and he has led 30 competitive projects as Principal Investigator. On the review side, he sits on the editorial boards of Current Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, has guest-edited six journal special issues, and reviews for more than a hundred journals. He also evaluates grant proposals for the European Commission, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Fundación "la Caixa", A*MIDEX in France and Helmholtz in Germany.
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Credentials
PhD in Chemistry, European Doctorate mention, cum laude, University of Murcia, 2006. Degree in Chemistry (Theoretical and Computational Chemistry), University of Murcia, 2000. Principal Investigator of the Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing group (BIO-HPC) at Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia since 2013, on a full-time permanent research contract. Previously Marie Curie experienced researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2008-2010), postdoctoral researcher at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (2007-2008), and Marie Curie early-stage fellow in Grenoble (2003). 210 JCR-indexed publications (34 in the first decile, 109 in the first quartile), corresponding author on 76. h-index 41 and about 6,600 citations on Google Scholar. 48 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. 11 patents, 5 of them licensed. 11 completed PhD supervisions, 6 in progress. Three consecutive six-year research periods ("sexenios") accredited by CNEAI, the Spanish national research assessment commission, covering 2002-2007, 2008-2013 and 2014-2019. National accreditation by ANECA as Profesor Contratado Doctor (2013) and Profesor Titular (2016). I3 certification, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, 2020. Editorial board member of Current Bioinformatics and of Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. Guest editor of six journal special issues, including BMC Bioinformatics, Molecules, Current Drug Targets and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Regular reviewer for more than 100 journals, among them PLOS ONE, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Grant proposal evaluator for the European Commission (H2020 Health), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Fundación "la Caixa" (CaixaResearch Validate 2020, 2021 and 2022), A*MIDEX at Aix-Marseille Université, Helmholtz European Partnering, and the national research agencies of Colombia and Urugua
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Two to three reviews per month, normally returned within seven to ten working days. Longer methodological audits, for example reproducing a docking or molecular dynamics protocol, need about two weeks notice. Based in Spain, so I work on Central European Time. I read and write English and Spanish.
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