Modesto Orozco
Co-Founder & President
Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, ICREA Academia Professor and Group Leader at IRB Barcelona. ERC Advanced Grant recipient. h‑index 108.
Prof. Modesto Orozco is one of Europe’s leading figures in computational biophysics and a recognised key opinion leader in molecular modelling and nucleic acid simulation. He is Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Barcelona, ICREA Academia Professor, and has directed the Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics group at IRB Barcelona since 2002.
With close to 500 peer-reviewed papers, more than 35,000 citations and an h-index of 108, he has the highest h-index of any computational chemist in Spain. He received an ERC Advanced Grant, directed the Life Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2005–2015), and led the Structural Bioinformatics Node of the Spanish National Institute of Bioinformatics for a decade.
He is Associate Editor of WIREs Computational Molecular Science and sits on the editorial boards of Nucleic Acids Research and the Journal of Computational Chemistry. His honours include the FEBS Anniversary Prize, the Bruker Award in Biophysics and the ICREA Academia award (2011 and 2018). He advises several pharmaceutical companies.
