Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Study of non covalent interactions
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Prediction of the protein structure a reactivity
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Polymorphism in organic crystals
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Formation and properties of peptide crystals
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Surface reactivity
Profile
Professor Joel Ireta received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Guanajuato in 1992, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After a postdoctoral stay at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society with the support of a scholarship from the Humboldt Foundation, and having formed a research group in biomaterials in the theory department of that institution, he joined the Department of Chemistry at UAM Iztapalapa Campus in 2007, first as a visiting professor and then as Professor. The field of research that he has been developing in recent years is based on the application of the theory of density functionals and classical molecular dynamics to systems where non-covalent interactions are fundamental to understand and predict their properties.
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