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Juan Jesús Pérez González

Juan Jesús Pérez González

Biotechnology
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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Juan Jesús Pérez González has a doctoral degree in Chemical Sciences from the University of Barcelona (1982). He is a full professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and has been attached to the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB) since 1984. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and Max Planck. Institute for Physics in Munich. He was a visiting scientist at IBM Laboratories in Kingston, New York and a senior researcher at the Molecular Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.

He is responsible for the molecular engineering research line that focuses on computer-aided molecular design and molecular modelling. His research activity is reflected in over 170 articles published in JCR journals. He has partnered with several pharmaceutical companies and helped to find two companies, Crystal Pharmaceuticals and Allinky Biopharma.

He was the Assistant Director of International Relations at the ETSEIB during the period 1999-2002. From 2002 to 2006 he was vice-rector for Doctoral Degrees, Research and International Relations. He has participated in several European projects on quality assurance in engineering education and the promotion of entrepreneurship.
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