Zanuy Gómara, David

Short biography

David Zanuy Gómara (Barcelona, 1972) is an associate professor at the department of Chemical Engineering at the Universtat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC/Barcelona Tech), co-founder of the IMEM research group and expert in Applied Molecular Simulations for Biotechnological, Nanotechnological and Biomedicine applications.

Prior to his current position, he participated in several research projects, both national and international. He stayed four years in the National Cancer Institute as postdoctoral fellow and rejoined the UPC as a Ramón y Cajal researcher, bringing over a collaboration with NCI within the framework of the Nanotechnology Initiative in 2006. After getting his current tenure in 2010 he has participated in all the major research projects of IMEM group. He has participated in 16 research projects, has published more than 120 publications (78 % of them in first and second quartile journals), 4 book chapters, has participate in 28 International Meetings, and co-organized the Peptide Materials meeting in 2016.

His research activity has focused on the understanding macroscopic properties of chemical systems with industrial and/or biomedical interest at the molecular level. By deciphering the molecular basis behind those properties, improvements can be proposed and tested in silico and then, applied in vitro. On the other side, computational chemistry techniques provide the perfect framework to connect the atomistic nature of reality with the experimental information available to us. Through this scale link it is possible to understand the dynamics of protein function, the pathological basis of protein aggregation or the rationale behind designing new composite materials.