SPEAKER: Dr. Victor Cruz

BIOPHYM,

Instituto de Estructura de la Materia

CSIC

Madrid, Spain

BIOSKETCH

Dr. Victor Cruz obtained his Ph.D. from the Complutense University at Madrid in 1985. He worked in the R&D department of a multinational cosmetic company for four years. In 1989 he joined the Computer Center at CSIC, beginning the constitution of Computational Chemistry department. He moved in 2005 to the Biophym group of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia – CSIC, with which was collaborating since the early 90's. At that time, his research interest was to analyze, using chemometric tools, the structure/activity relationship for the catalysts in single site olefin polymerization processes in close collaboration with chemical companies as the experimental reference. At present, his research interest moved to the exploration of the chemistry and physics of biomacromolecular systems using computational and theoretical approaches.