Xavier Daura

Dr. Xavier Daura is Research Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and Principal Investigator of the group for Computational Biology in the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is BSc in Biological Sciences MSc in Biotechnology and PhD in Biological Sciences by UAB, and was a postdoctoral researcher for six years at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. The main focus of his current research is in the development of new strategies to combat bacterial infections, combining a range of computational and experimental techniques for the identification of candidate bacterial components for synthetic vaccines and antimicrobial targets with new modes of action. Dr. Daura has authored over 80 publications, receiving more than 4300 citations.