Munir Salomao Skaf

Munir Skaf has a degree in Physics from the State University of Campinas, a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a post-doctorate from Colorado State University. He was Visiting Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin. Skaf is a Full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry at UNICAMP since 2011 and has extensive expertise in Computational Biophysical Chemistry, with an emphasis on Computational Theoretical Chemistry, working mainly on the following topics: molecular dynamics simulation, statistical thermodynamics, relationship between dynamics, structure and function in biomolecular systems, enzymatic reactions, and QM/MM simulations. More recently, his group has dedicated efforts to applying artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to the study of proteins and other areas of chemoinformatics. He was Pro-Rector of Research at UNICAMP from 2017-2021 and is currently director of the CEPID/FAPESP Center for Computing in Engineering and Sciences (https://cces.unicamp.br/). He is a Level 1A Researcher at CNPq. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)