Dr. Claudio Cavasotto, Principal Investigator, CONICET and scientific director Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Austral.
Dr. Cavasotto is a specialist in computational simulation of biomacromolecules, computer-aided drug design and biomedical informatics. He earned his PhD in Physics, University of Buenos Aires, and concluded postdoctoral studies in computational biology and biophysics at The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
He is among the most prominent scientists in the world according to the ranking prepared by Stanford University, ranking in the top 0.4% in his specialty “Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry”. He has published more than 75 papers in leading scientific journals, and the book In Silico Drug Discovery and Design: Theory, Methods, Challenges, and Applications. Previously a Senior Researcher, MolSoft LLC (San Diego, CA), Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center (Houston, TX).