Cláudio Soares

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Cláudio Soares is Pro-rector at NOVA University Lisbon and coordinates the NOVA Health Strategic Platform.

He graduated in Biochemistry in 1989 from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He carried out his PhD project at Uppsala University, Sweden (which he presented at the University of Lisbon in 1994). Dr. Soares joined ITQB NOVA in 1994 and has been running the Protein Modelling Laboratory there since 1999, one of the first laboratories in this field in Portugal. His Laboratory works on the molecular modelling of proteins using computational biophysical methods and its members have experience in a wide range of areas, from fundamental research methods to applications of biotechnological and biomedical interest.

He is a Full Professor at ITQB NOVA and was Director of the institute between 2013 and 2023, and Deputy Director from 2005-2008 and 2011-2013. He is the author of 128 articles published or accepted in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has an h-index of 41 (SCOPUS). He is 1st Secretary of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Biophysics Society and President of the Scientific Council of TAGUSPARK – Science and Technology Park, Portugal. He was President of the Portuguese Biophysical Society (2002-2008), a member of the Advanced Courses Committee of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) (2015-2018) and a member of the Council of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) (2011-2017). Since 2004, he has been an evaluator for several international funding agencies, including the European Commission.

Since 1996, he has participated in 36 research projects with competitive funding and is currently the coordinator of a major project funded by the La Caixa Foundation, which involves a consortium of 7 laboratories in Portugal and Spain. Since 2015, he has also been the Coordinator of the Molecular, Structural and Cellular Microbiology Research Unit – MOSTMICRO-ITQB at ITQB NOVA, which is rated as Excellent by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.