Raquel Castillo

Raquel Castillo is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) within Universitat Jaume I, Spain. Her work focuses on computational biochemistry, particularly on enzyme reaction mechanisms and the design of novel inhibitors.

• Education: Degree in Chemistry (1994) from Universidad de Valencia; PhD in Chemistry (1999) from Universitat Jaume I under Prof. Juan Andrés and Prof. Vicent Moliner.
• Postdoctoral Experience: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2002) under Prof. Josep M. Lluch.

Research Interests: Her work integrates quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations to study enzyme catalysis, with applications in pharmacology and biotechnology. Recent projects involve machine learning for disease biomarker identification (inflammatory bowel disease, systemic sclerosis, carcinoma) and developing multitarget anticancer agents.

Research Group: Collaborates with the BioComp group led by Prof. Vicent Moliner, which specializes in computational catalysis and designing biomimetic catalysts for biomedical applications.

Publication Trends: Her articles span computational enzymology, quantum chemical analysis, and biomedical machine learning. Key subfields include reaction mechanism elucidation, protein engineering, and data-driven diagnostics.