{"id":1211,"date":"2023-11-24T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T10:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/?page_id=1211"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:25:26","slug":"dr-xavier-lucas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/past-group-members\/dr-xavier-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Xavier Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel \">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Xavier.webp\" alt=\"Xavier Lucas\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Xavier.jpg\" alt=\"Xavier Lucas\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Xavier.jpg\" alt=\"Xavier Lucas\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<h2>Degree(s)<\/h2>\n<p>BSc Chemistry (2009), Balearic Islands University (UIB, Majorca, Spain)<br \/>\nMSc Bioinformatics for Health Sciences (2011), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Barcelona, Spain)<br \/>\nPhD Pharmaceutical Sciences (2014), Albert-Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany)<\/p>\n<h2>Profile<\/h2>\n<p>Past Member To and From Dates: August 2015 \u2013 July 2018<br \/>\nPast Member Current Position: Research scientist at Roche<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Lucas studied Chemistry at the University of Balearic Islands (Spain). During the last years of his degree, he collaborated at the University\u2019s Computational and Organic Chemistry Department of Prof. Dr. Antonio Frontera and got expertise in ab initio studies of noncovalent interactions. He then moved to Barcelona for his M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, and submitted a M.Sc. thesis which focussed on high-throughput docking approaches for drug design, developed at the group of Prof. Dr. Janusz M. Bujnicki, Poland (\u201cVirtual screening for the discovery of novel inhibitors of NpmA and KamB methyltransferases\u201d, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, he moved to Germany (Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics, University of Freiburg) for his PhD, where he worked on structure-based drug discovery in protein-protein interactions, epigenetics, and cheminformatics (\u201cDiscovery of small molecules modulating protein-protein interactions\u201d, 2014).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degree(s) BSc Chemistry (2009), Balearic Islands University (UIB, Majorca, Spain) MSc Bioinformatics for Health Sciences (2011), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Barcelona, Spain) PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences (2014), Albert-Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany) Profile Past Member To and From Dates: August 2015 \u2013 July 2018 Past Member Current Position: Research scientist at Roche Xavier Lucas studied Chemistry at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":575,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211\/revisions\/4554"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}