About Carme 

Carme Rovira is an ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (UB). She earned her PhD in Chemistry from UB in 1995 (with a UB award) under the supervision of Prof. J. J. Novoa. During her doctoral studies, she conducted part of her research in the United States (NCSU and SIU), working for a year with Profs. M.-H. Whangbo and S. Scheiner. From 1996 to 1998, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, initially funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya and later by an EU Marie Curie Fellowship, working with Prof. Michele Parrinello. She returned to UB in late 1998 as a senior postdoctoral researcher under the "Contrato de Incorporación de Doctores y Tecnólogos" program (1999–2001). In 2002, she joined the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) as a Ramón y Cajal fellow to establish her independent research group. She was appointed an ICREA Research Professor in 2007 (initially at PCB, later moving to UB in 2012). In 2019, she was a visiting professor at the University of York (UK).

Prof. Rovira has received several research awards, including the Distinció de la Generalitat from the Catalan Government (2003), the Barcelona City Prize from the Barcelona City Council (2016), and the Emil Fischer Award from the European Carbohydrate Organisation (2019). In 2020, she was awarded an ERC Synergy Grant alongside Prof. G. J. Davies (University of York) and Prof. H. S. Overkleeft (Leiden University). She has authored > 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, primarily in the fields of theoretical chemical physics and computational biology.

Her research focuses on modeling biological processes at atomic and electronic detail using computer simulations, addressing fundamental questions about protein and enzyme function. This knowledge contributes to the design of novel proteins capable of functioning under different conditions, as well as the development of new drugs targeting disease-related enzymes. In recent years, her work has centered on glycoprocessing enzymes, including glycosidases, glycosyltransferases, and lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases.

• ICREA web page

• Web of Science/ResearcherID: K-5195-2014

• ORCID: 0000-0003-1477-5010 

• Google Scholar

Main managerial activities:

• Chair of the Life Sciences Panel of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). European Union. Jan 2022- current.

• President of the Computational Chemistry Group of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society (GEQC-RSEQ). Nov 2023 - current. Vice-President Jun 2018 - Oct 2023.

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Commiteee of the Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences (Norway). Nov 2023 - current.

• Editorial advisory board member of ACS Catalysis (2016 - 2019) and ACS Omega (2021- current).

• Secretary of the Academic Commission of the Organic Chemistry Doctorate Program of the University of Barcelona. Jan 2022 – current.

• Member of the working group “Molecules, Macromolecules and Biomolecules” of the Psik European Network. Jan 2021 - current.

• Jury member of the Barcelona City Prize for Experimental Sciences and Technology. 2018-2020.

• Member of the access committee of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). Sept 2016 - Oct 2018.

• Member of the direction board of the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the UB (IQTCUB). 2014 - 2018.

• Chair of the User's Committee of the Red Nacional de Supercomputación (CURES). Jan 2014 - Sept 2016.