Miquel Duran-frigola
Chief Scientific Officer And Co-Founder at Ersilia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolMiquel Duran-frigola is a computational biologist and co-founder who leads Ersilia's effort to build an open-source, data-rich platform for computational drug discovery targeted at infectious tropical diseases and global health. With a PhD in Biomedicine and a decade of research experience at IRB Barcelona, he has authored 30 peer-reviewed papers, serving as first or corresponding author on half of them. He blends a strong chemistry and bioinformatics foundation with hands-on work translating network biology and genome-scale modeling into actionable drug-discovery pipelines. Passionate about moving discoveries toward the clinic, he focuses on neglected areas where data-driven approaches can have outsized impact. Outside science he channels creativity into fiction writing and formal training in creative writing, a detail that underscores his ability to communicate complex ideas clearly.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
IQS Chemical Engineer, IQS Chemical Engineer at IQS School of EngineeringMaster in Creative Writing, Master in Creative Writing at UPF Barcelona School of ManagementUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)BSc, Chemistry, BSc, Chemistry at Universitat Ramon LlullNovel, Creative Writing, Novel, Creative Writing at Escola d'Escriptura Ateneu BarcelonèsPhD, Biomedicine, Summa Cum Laude, PhD, Biomedicine, Summa Cum Laude at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (88)
automl10
mlmodel10
ai10
cli10
drug-discovery10
open-source10
machine-learning10
message-passing9
chemistry9
molecular-representation9
automated-machine-learning9
calculation9
predictor9
random-forest8
regression8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ersilia-os/eos8a4x
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
RDKIT physicochemical descriptors of small molecules
Contributions:35 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 4 months
rdkit
ersilia-os/eos7a45
Apr 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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