Victor Guallar
Co-Founder & CSO
ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. ERC Advanced Grant recipient. h‑index 53.
Prof. Víctor Guallar is an ICREA Research Professor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where he has led the Electronic and Atomic Protein Modelling group since 2006. He is a key opinion leader in physics-based drug and enzyme design and the creator of PELE, the Monte Carlo technology at the heart of Nostrum’s platform.
He was the youngest researcher in Spain to receive an ERC Advanced Grant (2009). He has published about 200 peer-reviewed papers, around 90% in Q1 journals, with more than 9,600 citations and an h-index of 53, and has supervised 21 PhD theses. His milestones include the first in silico directed-evolution enzyme engineering study and the first PluriZymes, enzymes with two active sites, published in Nature Catalysis.
He trained at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and UC Berkeley, did his postdoc at Columbia University, and was Assistant Professor at Washington University School of Medicine before co-founding Nostrum Biodiscovery, the BSC’s first spin-off, in 2016.
