Cláudio M. Soares studied Biochemistry at Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, where he obtained his first degree in 1989. In 1990 he went to Uppsala University, Sweden where he developed the research that led to his PhD (presented in the University of Lisbon in 1994). After the PhD he joined ITQB NOVA in 1994 and in 1999 he created and start leading the Protein Modelling Laboratory, one of the first labs in Portugal to work in this field. The Protein Modeling Laboratory, founded in 1999, employs computational biophysical and AI methods to investigate the molecular structure and dynamics of proteins. The interaction with experimental laboratories is essential for our current research, which is primarily focused on the design of non-conventional biologicals to combat viral infection and engineering enzymes for the production of high-value compounds. He is co-author of 134 published or accepted papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has an h-index of 42 (Scopus; 49 in Google Scholar). He participated in 38 competitively funded projects since 1996 (including 10 international projects, being the coordinator of 5 of these). He was co-author of 104 invited presentations in meetings and institutions. He has supervised 5 Diploma students, 7 master students, 15 research students, 16 PhD students and 13 post-doctoral fellows. His present lab is composed of one Assistant Researcher, 1 Project Manager, 8 PhD students, 3 Research Fellows and 6 master students. He is 1st Secretary of the General Assembly of the Port. Biophys. Soc., and was Chairman of the Port. Biophys. Soc. (2002-2008). He was President of the Fiscal Committee of the Portuguese Biochemical Society (2019-2022), President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Biochemical Society (2017-2018), member of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) council (2011-2017), and member of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Advanced Courses Committee (2015-2018). He is member of the Scientific Council of TAGUSPARK - Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, since 2013 and is President of this Council since 2020. He is Full Professor of Biochemistry since 2022. He was Pro-Rector for the NOVA Health Platform from 2023 to 2025. Cláudio M. Soares was Dean of ITQB NOVA from 2013 to 2023 and was Vice-Dean during the 2005-2008 and 2011-2013 periods. He is Coordinator of the Molecular, Structural and Cellular Microbiology - MOSTMICRO-ITQB Research Unit (evaluated as Excellent) of ITQB NOVA since 2015. He has been in the organisation or in the scientific committee of 30 national and international meetings and acted as Chair in 30 symposia. He has done extensive evaluation work for Research financing agencies from Portugal (Chair in 2016-2018), European Commission, Argentina, Czech Republic (Co-Chair in 2020, 2021 and 2022; Chair in 2024), The Netherlands, USA, Germany, Austria, Cyprus, Poland (Chair in 2024), Romania, Israel. He is Member the Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals i) Biophysical Reviews - From 2011-2021. ii) PLOS One - From 2012 to the present day. iii) Scientific Reports - From 2013 to the present day. iv) FEBS Open Bio - From 2018 to the present day.