Experience

Sanofi Belgium

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

• Senior Scientist Bioinformatician

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium Computational Protein Engineering and Computational Science support to the Nanobody® Research Platform Discovery.



Aarhus University

• Denmark
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Dec 2017 - Aug 2021

  Aarhus, Denmark • Substrate-binding simulations using accelerated MD simulations. (Publication in JPCB 2020) • Atomistic and coarse-grained MD simulations of integral membrane proteins. (Publication in Nature Plants 2021) • Clustering analysis. • Supervision of graduate and undergraduate students. • Implementation of correlation and mutual information estimators to detect allosteric communication pathways in proteins. • Grant applications writing



Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Oct 2015 - Nov 2017

  Seoul, South Korea • Protein structure prediction: Training, validation, and implementation of scoring energy functions using residue-pairwise contact prediction methods. Publication in Proteins, 2018. • Analysis and community detection of large biological networks. Publication in Nature Methods, 2019. • Conformational space annealing (CSA), global optimization, structure-based models, network analysis, clustering analysis.

• Visiting Scholar

  • Jul 2015 - Sep 2015

  Seoul, South Korea



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Nov 2014 - Dec 2014

  • Investigated conformational switching of diphtheria toxin T-domain, protein/protein assemblies and AMPA-receptor . This work was reported in Biophysical Journal, 2017, J. Physical Chemistry B, 2019 and JPCB 2021. • Supervision of graduate students. • Management of the local high performance computer cluster.

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2007 - Sep 2014

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Research Assistant student in Kurnikova's research group • Multiscale modelling of the acidic destabilization and membrane association of diphtheria toxin translocation domain. This work resulted in the publication of 5 peer-reviewed publications. • Accelerated Molecular Dynamics, Metropolis Monte-Carlo, Free Energy Perturbation, Umbrella Sampling, Thermodynamic Integration, Continuum Electrostatic Models, Force-Field Parameterization, Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Martini MD… Show more Research Assistant student in Kurnikova's research group • Multiscale modelling of the acidic destabilization and membrane association of diphtheria toxin translocation domain. This work resulted in the publication of 5 peer-reviewed publications. • Accelerated Molecular Dynamics, Metropolis Monte-Carlo, Free Energy Perturbation, Umbrella Sampling, Thermodynamic Integration, Continuum Electrostatic Models, Force-Field Parameterization, Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Martini MD simulations. • Teaching Assistant of: Mathematical Methods for Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Introduction to Modern Chemistry I, and Introduction to Analytical Chemistry Show less



Nestlé Peru

• Brazil
• E-Learning Providers

• Engineer Internship

  • 2007 - 2007

  Callao Province, Peru Mechanical Design (Autocad)



National University of Engineering

• Peru
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • 2005 - 2007

  Lima Province, Peru Research assistant on computational modelling of thin films. Results were reported in two peer-reviewed publications.