Xavier Prat-resina
Associate Professor
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolXavier Prat-resina is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota Rochester with a PhD in theoretical chemistry and nine years of faculty experience building QM/MM atomistic models of enzymatic reaction pathways. His research background spans MD and PMF methods applied to enzymatic reactions, liquid water, and proton channels, while his technical toolkit evolved from Fortran and Unix administration to Python, R, Bash and web stacks (JavaScript/PHP/SQL). Passionate about pedagogy, he is leading a curriculum redesign for the four-semester gen chem/ochem sequence and builds interactive teaching tools and learning-analytics software (Models360, ChemEdXData, Jmol variations, and the BoSCO visualizer). He blends rigorous computational chemistry expertise with practical software development for education, making complex molecular concepts accessible through online tools and data visualization.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, PhD, Theoretical Chemistry at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMSc, Theoretical Chemistry, MSc, Theoretical Chemistry at Universitat de Barcelona and Universita degli Studi di BolognaBSc, Chemistry, BSc, Chemistry at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, Catalan, Italian, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
xavierprat/Blog
Jun 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:22 pushes in 3 years 1 month
xavierprat/scholarly-at-UMR
Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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