Maria João Ramos

Maria João Ramos did her first degree in Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal, her Ph.D. in Muon research at both the University of Glasgow, UK, and the then Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN) in Villigen, Switzerland. Subsequently she did a post-doc in Molecular Modelling at the University of Oxford, UK. In 1991, she became a Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, where she remains today, heading the Theoretical and Computational Biochemistry Research Group. She kept her former link to Oxford, for many years, becoming an Associate Director, back in 2000, of the Centre for Computational Drug Discovery at Oxford, funded by the National Foundation for Cancer Research. She has been a consultant for a multinational and has performed extensive evaluation work for several research national and foreign entities, including the European Commission. In September 2014 she was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Stockholm, Sweden, for her scientific research, which focuses on computational enzymatic catalysis, protein dynamics, computational mutagenesis, molecular docking and drug discovery, all aiming at a better understanding of the functions and applications of enzymes. She has delivered 87 plenary/invited talks at international conferences and published over 300 publications in international scientific journals, with peer-review, as well as 5 books and 12 book chapters. Maria João Ramos is now the Vice-Rector for Research & Development at the University of Porto. Additionally, she is a member of the International Committee for the European Doctorate in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling as well as its homonymous Master Mundus program.

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