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Prof. Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez
Prof. Vöhringer-Martinez obtained his PhD in 2008 (Dr. rer. nat) at Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany. After a postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and at the Pontificia University in Santiago in Chile he moved to University of Concepción, where he was been appointed as Full profesor. His main research interests are computational reaction dynamics.
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Prof. Stefan Vogt Geisse
Dr. Vogt Geisse did his undergraduate study at the Pontificia Universidad Católica, where he obtained his Licenciatura. He completed his PhD studies in the University of Georgia at the Center of Computational Quantum Chemistry. His was appointed Assistant Professor of the Physical Chemistry Department in 2017. His main research interests are applying ab initio quantum chemistry to problems Astrochemistry and Ring-opening polymerization.
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Prof. David Saez
Doctor en Química (2017) y Químico-Farmacéutico (2012) de la Universidad de Concepción. Proyecto actual: "NADPH, 1,4-Dihidropiridinas y Compuestos Insaturados:Explorando la Principal Estrategia Reductora de la Naturaleza."
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Juliana Andrea Murillo López
Her main research field is focused on the use of QM/MM methods for studying the chemical reactivity in small group transfer reactions (e.g. carboxylation, phosphorylation) involved in enzyme catalysis processes. She is currently applying these methods to study carboxylation reactions in Rubisco and CCr enzymes, in particular how changes in the active site (point mutations, substrate changes, metallic substitution) can affect enzyme reactivity.
Dr. Rodrigo Recabarren Hurtado
My main research field is computational chemistry applied to enzymatic catalysis. Postdoc Project Title: "Engineering carboxylases as biocatalysts for CO2 fixation and stereoselective C-C coupling reactions: a computational approach" Email: rrecabarren[at]udec.cl
Graduate Students
Aharon Ignacio Gomez Llanos
Thesis title: Diffusion and binding of CO2 to Crotonyl-CoA Carboxylase-Reductases by molecular dynamics simulations.
Giulia Bovolenta
Thesis title: Química sobre modelos de hielo interestelar: distribuciones de energías de unión y síntesis de moléculas prebióticas Representative publications: High level ab initio binding energy distribution of molecules on interstellar ices: Hydrogen fluoride, Submitted, 2020
Duván Esteban González Gómez
Thesis title: Cálculos de energía libre de unión de sistemas anfitrión-huésped y proteína-ligando utilizando cargas atómicas derivadas de la densidad electrónica
Carlos Andrés Castillo Orellana
Thesis title: Cambios Conformacionales de la enzima Glucosa-6-fosfato deshidrogenasa por unión de Nicotinamida adenina dinucleótido fosfato y mutaciones de clase I
Undergraduate Students
Jorge Pulido
Undergraduate student Research Proyect: Python Framework to validate non-bonded molecular interactions of small drug-like molecules with hydration free energies in FreeSolv.