Cláudio M. Soares graduated in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1989. He carried out his Ph.D. project at the University of Uppsala, Sweden (which he presented at the University of Lisbon in 1994).
He joined ITQB NOVA in 1994, and since 1999 has headed the Protein Modelling Laboratory at this institution, one of the first laboratories in Portugal in this field. The laboratory works on molecular modelling of proteins using computational biophysical methods, and its members have experience in a wide range of areas, from fundamental methodological research to applications of biotechnological and biomedical interest.
He is a full professor at ITQB NOVA and was its director from 2013 to 2023 and deputy director from 2005 to 2008 and 2011 to 2013.
He is the author of 128 papers published or accepted in peer-reviewed scientific journals, with an h-index of 41 (SCOPUS). He is 1st Secretary of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Society of Biophysics and President of the Scientific Council of TAGUSPARK-Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. He was President of the Portuguese Society of Biophysics (2002-2008), member of the Advanced Courses Committee of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) (2015-2018) and member of the Board of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) (2011-2017). Since 2004, he has been a reviewer for several international funding agencies, including the European Commission. To date, he has supervised the work of 5 undergraduate students, 5 Masters students and 15 PhD students (10 of whom have graduated). He has also supervised the scientific work of 14 research students and 10 post-doctoral fellows.
Since 1996, he has participated in 36 research projects with competitive funding and is currently the Coordinator of a large project funded by the La Caixa Foundation, consisting of a consortium of 7 laboratories in Portugal and Spain. He is also, since 2015, the coordinator of the Molecular, Structural and Cellular Microbiology Research Unit - MOSTMICRO-ITQB of ITQB NOVA, rated Excellent by the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P.
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