Xavier Barril Alonso PhD

Xavier Barril is an ICREA Research Professor at Facultat de Farmacia of the Universitat de Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. from this University in 2001 for theoretical studies on the ligand-receptor molecular recognition process under the supervision of Profs. F. Javier Luque and Modesto Orozco. He then joined the Applications Modelling team at Vernalis (Cambridge, UK) for 4 years, where he was involved in a range of projects, mainly in the oncology area. Finally, in 2005 he was appointed ICREA Research Professor to start his own group.