Walter F. de Azevedo Jr.

Summary

Professor of Biophysics, Molecular Biophysics, Bioinformatics, and Drug Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil. I'm Frontiers Section Editor (Bioinformatics and Biophysics) for the Current Drug Target and Section Editor (Bioinformatics in Drug Design and Discovery) for the Current Medicinal Chemistry. My research is focused on protein-ligand interactions. I study the interactions between proteins and ligands using methodologies such as molecular docking simulations, machine learning, QSAR, and molecular dynamics.

Artificial Intelligence Biochemistry Bioinformatics Biomolecules Biophysical Chemistry Biophysics Chemometrics Computational Biology Crystallography Data Mining & Machine Learning Scientific Computing & Simulation Theoretical & Computational Chemistry Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics

Work details

Professor

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil.

August 2005

School of Sciences

I graduated in Physics (BSc in Physics) from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1990. I completed a Master Degree in Applied Physics also at USP (1992), working under the supervision of Prof. Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, the founder of crystallography in Brazil. My dissertation was about X-ray crystallography applied to organometallics compounds (De Azevedo et al., 1995). During my Ph.D., I worked under the supervision of Prof. Sung-Hou Kim (University of California, Berkeley. Department of Chemistry), on a split Ph.D. program with a fellowship from Brazilian Research Council (CNPq)(1993-1996). My Ph.D. was about the crystallographic structure of CDK2 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2) (De Azevedo et al., 1996). In 1996, I returned to Brazil. In April 1997, I finished my Ph.D. and moved to Sao Jose do Rio Preto (SP, Brazil) (UNESP) and worked there from 1997 to 2005. In 1997, I started the Laboratory of Biomolecular Systems- Department of Physics-UNESP - São Paulo State University. In 2005, I moved to Porto Alegre/RS (Brazil), where I am now. My current position is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Computational Systems Biology at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). My research interests are interdisciplinary with two major emphases: Bio-inspired computing and Computational Systems Biology. I published over 170 scientific papers about protein structures and computer simulation methods applied to the study of biological systems (H-index: 38). These publications have over 5000 citations.