Biography

Julio Caballero was born in 1977 in Matanzas, Cuba. He studied Chemistry at Universidad de La Habana, where he graduated with a Gold Diploma in 2001. In 2002-2004 he worked on protein engineering in the Enzyme Technology Group at Universidad de Matanzas. He began to work on pharmaceutical modeling and artificial intelligence in 2004 and founded the Molecular Modeling Group at the same university. In 2006 he moved to Talca, Chile and began to work at Universidad de Talca. He was incorporated into the Ph.D. program in Applied Sciences in 2008. He completed his Ph.D. degree working in computational biochemistry in 2012 and was appointed as Assistant Professor at Universidad de Talca. In 2013 he was promoted to associate professor at the same university. At this moment Julio Caballero is member of the regular academic staff of Universidad de Talca, head of the department of Applied Sciences, member of ‘Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular’ (CBSM), and lecturer of the school of Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Engineering at the same university. His current research is focused on ligand-biomolecules interactions, pharmaceutical modeling, protein structures and function, enzyme reactivity and selectivity, and his main contributions are focused to medicinal chemistry topics.