Research Grants & Projects

" I [dream] that I am Oliver Twist and I tremble as I shuffle down the aisle of the NSF orphanage, my empty soup bowl uplifted. The yongest orphans stare at me. They have no bowls, for they have never received NSF support...Among the throng I spy the shocked and bewildered faces of scientific luminaries, prizewinners, even Nobel laureates. I raise my bowl to the Director and in a trembling voice ask, "Please sir, one little laser"
"What," he thunders, "You have already had more than your share. Out!"
–D. Kleppner (Physics Today, April 1990).

Ongoing

• The nature of protein folding (2011-2014),
  Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: FCT
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  

  
  

• Insights into folding kinetics and designability of knotted proteins from lattice models (2011-2013),
  Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: FCT
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  

  
  

• Intermediate states: At the crossroads of pathways to folding and pathways to disease (2010-2013),
  Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: FCT
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  

  
  

• Molecular Simulations in Biosystems and Material Science, SimBioMa (2006-2011)
  Steering committe member
  Funding Agency: ESF
  Prime Contractor: CECAM, Lyon, France
  

Finished

• Studying protein folding and aggregation with coarse-grained computational models (2009-2010),
  Acções Integradas Luso-Espanholas. Universidade de Lisboa & Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: CRUP
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  

  
  

• From protein folding to protein design: exploring biological complexity via computer simulation of simple models (2006-2010)
  Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: FCT / POCTI
  Prime Contractor: Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa
  

  
  

• Complex systems: from physics to biology and the social sciences (2005-2008)
  Participant
  Funding Agency: FCT / POCTI
  Prime Contractor: Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa, CFTC
  

  
  

• From nucleus to stucture: keys of the emergence to a functional protein (2005-2006)
  Participant
  Funding Agency: CRUP / Reino Unido
  Prime Contractor: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, CFTC, Portugal