Theoretical and Computational Biochemistry Group
Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes
Departamento de Química,
Rua do Campo Alegre,
687
Tel: +351 220 402 667
I
have got a degree in chemistry at the University of
Porto, Portugal, in 1993. After teaching chemistry in the high school
for three
years, I have started my PhD studies (1997), under the supervision of
Prof.
José. A. N. F. Gomes, in the subject of
Simulations of Liquid|Liquid Interfaces.
For that purpose I have
used Molecular Dynamics simulations, and I have studied the properties
of the
interfaces and ion transfers across the two phases. Upon finishing the
PhD
(2000) I become an Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of
the
Faculty of Sciences of Porto, Portugal, and later (2009) an associate
Professor
of the same faculty. My research interests shifted towards biological
chemistry
after the PhD, and I begun studying the catalytic mechanism of enzymes,
using
Density Functional Theory. From then on, my research areas have
broadened to
encompass the catalysis and inhibition of enzymes, the energetics
and dynamics of proteins, computational mutagenesis, docking
algorithms, and
drug design.
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