Alexandre Ricardo Vieira Pinto (401E-B37D-4D91)

Curriculum Vitae

Alexandre Ricardo Vieira Pinto

Alexandre Ricardo Vieira Pinto. Completed the Doutoramento in Doutoramento em Química in 2025/06/22 by Universidade do Porto, Doutoramento in Doutoramento em Química in 2025/06/22 by Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Mestrado in Mestrado em Bioquímica in 2019/11/15 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências and Licenciatura in Licenciatura em Bioquímica in 2017/07/11 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências. Published 7 articles in journals. Participated in 15 event(s). Has received 1 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Other in 1 project(s), Research Fellow in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 2 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Biochemistry, Exact Sciences with emphasis on Chemical Sciences and Exact Sciences with emphasis on Computer and Information Sciences with emphasis on Bioinformatics. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes; Functionalization; Carboxymethyl; Hydrogen Bonds; pH-sensitive; Density Functional Theory; Topology Analysis; Mutagenesis; Enzymes; Computational Methods; .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Alexandre Ricardo Vieira Pinto

Citation names

Pinto, A. V.
Alexandre V. Pinto
A. V. Pinto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 401E-B37D-4D91
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0950-3291

Email addresses

up201402847@up.pt (Professional)
arvpinto@hotmail.com (Personal)

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandre_Pinto15 (Social media)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexrvpinto/ (Social media)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/04/22 - 2025/06/22 Concluded	Doutoramento em Química (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
2017/10/02 - 2019/11/15 Concluded	Mestrado em Bioquímica (Mestrado) Major in Química Computacional Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Computational Modelling of Carbon Nanotubes as Drug Carriers" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2018/02/01 - 2018/07/31 Concluded	Projeto de Estágio Extra-Curricular (PEEC) (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	A
2014/09/10 - 2017/07/11 Concluded	Licenciatura em Bioquímica (Licenciatura) Major in Bioquímica Computational Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "ASPARTATE-SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE (ASADH): A QM/MM MODEL PREPARATION" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/04 - 2026/04	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/01/16 - 2025/03/16	Researcher (Research)	Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025/01/04 - 2026/03/31	EnZync NNF22OC0072891 Researcher
2022/01 - 2025/01	Computational study of MHETase for PET plastic biodegradation 2021.05918.BD	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2022/12/01 - 2023/02/28	Biodegrading Unsaturated Polyesters EHPC-BEN-202211-007 Researcher	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/03/08 - 2024/03/07	Murderous Venom- An Universal and Affordable Antidote Against Snakebite EHPC-REG-2022R03-205 Researcher	Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe Ongoing
2020/04/01 - 2023/04/01	Biodegrading plastic 2019215204 Other Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe Ongoing
2020/01/16 - 2021/10/15	GAS@BIOMAT - Cristais de Dipéptidos como Biomateriais para Purificação de Gases PTDC/QUI-QFI/29914/2017 Research Fellow Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2021/03 - 2022/04	The Human Synovial secreted PLA2 enzyme: an insight on the reaction mechanism of sPLA2s HPC17H98I1 Researcher SURF Research & ICT, Netherlands	Horizon 2020 Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	A. V. Pinto. "Unraveling the Catalysis of GIIA sPLA2 through Classical and QM/MM Approaches". Paper presented in EuChemS CompChem, Thessaloniki, 2023. Published A. V. Pinto. "Nanoscale Graphene Oxide Models for the Adsorption of Biological Molecules". Paper presented in 15º Encontro Nacional de Química Física, 2023. Published Pinto, A. V.. "A DFT on SWCNT End-Functionalization: Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds as a Molecular Gate". Paper presented in XXVI Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Química Portuguesa, Porto, 2019. Published
Conference poster	Castro-Amorim, Juliana; Alexandre V. Pinto; Ramos, Maria João; Fernandes, Pedro Alexandrino. Corresponding author: Castro-Amorim, Juliana. "On the intriguing world of snake venom toxins: Unravelling the catalytic pathway of phospholipase A2 toxin in a membrane model". Paper presented in 30th Meeting in Toxinology (RT30) of the SFET, Nice, France, 2024. A. V. Pinto. "Unraveling the Catalysis of GIIA sPLA2 through Classical and QM/MM Approaches". Paper presented in EuChemS CompChem, 2023. Pinto, A. V. ; Alexandre L. Magalhães. "A DFT on SWCNT End-Functionalization: Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds as a Molecular Gate". Paper presented in XXVI Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Química Portuguesa, 2019. Pinto, A. V. ; Alexandre L. Magalhães. "A DFT on SWCNT End-Functionalization: Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds as a Molecular Gate". Paper presented in XII Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Bioquímica, 2019.
Journal article	Juliana Castro-Amorim; Alexandre V. Pinto; Ashis K. Mukherjee; Maria J. Ramos; Pedro A. Fernandes. "Beyond Fang's fury: a computational study of the enzyme–membrane interaction and catalytic pathway of the snake venom phospholipase A2 toxin". Chemical Science (2025): https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC06511E. 10.1039/D4SC06511E Alexandre V. Pinto; Pedro Ferreira; Ana V. Cunha; Remco W. A. Havenith; Alexandre L. Magalhães; Maria J. Ramos; Pedro A. Fernandes. "Revisiting the reaction pathways for phospholipid hydrolysis catalyzed by phospholipase A2 with QM/MM methods". Chemical Science (2024): https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC02315C. 10.1039/D4SC02315C Alexandre V. Pinto; Pedro Ferreira; Pedro A. Fernandes; Alexandre L. Magalhães; Maria J. Ramos. "Development of Nanoscale Graphene Oxide Models for the Adsorption of Biological Molecules". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2022): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06037. 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06037 Anna Cebrián-Prats; Alexandre Pinto; Àngels González-Lafont; Pedro A. Fernandes; José M. Lluch. "The role of acetylated cyclooxygenase-2 in the biosynthesis of resolvin precursors derived from eicosapentaenoic acid". Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (2022): https://doi.org/10.1039/D1OB01932E. 10.1039/D1OB01932E A. V. Pinto; Pedro Ferreira; Neves, Rui P. P.; Pedro Manuel Azevedo Alexandrino Fernandes; Ramos, Maria João; Alexandre Lopes de Magalhães. "Reaction Mechanism of MHETase, a PET Degrading Enzyme". ACS Catalysis 11 16 (2021): 10416-10428. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.1c02444. Published • https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c02444 A. V. Pinto; A. L. Magalhães (051F-D374-754F). "Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds in Tip-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as pH-Sensitive Gates". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c03710. Published • 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c03710 A. V. Pinto. "Proteínas Virais no Protein Data Bank". Revista de Ciência Elementar 8 2 (2020): https://rce.casadasciencias.org/rceapp/art/2020/022/. Open access • Published • http://doi.org/10.24927/rce2020.022
Thesis / Dissertation	Pinto, A. V.. "Computational Modelling of Carbon Nanotubes as Drug Carriers". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/124174.

Artistic / Performance

Visual artwork

A. V. Pinto. Capa Frontal da ACS Catalysis, Volume 11, Edição 16.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c02444
A. V. Pinto. Capa Frontal da Nature Reviews Chemistry, Volume 6, Edição 7.
A. V. Pinto. Capa Frontal do Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Volume 127, Edição 2.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/04/05	Nanoscale Graphene Oxide Models for the Adsorption of Biological Molecules	15º Encontro Nacional de Química Física Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Portugal)
2019/02/14	A Theoretical study on SWCNT End-Functionalization: Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds as a Molecular Gate	12th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto University of Porto (Portugal, Portugal)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/05/16 - 2022/05/19	Introduction to Supercomputing at JSC - Theory & Practice Workshop	Introduction to Supercomputing at JSC - Theory & Practice Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
2022/02/07 - 2022/02/09	Advanced GROMACS Workshop Workshop	Advanced GROMACS Workshop 2022 CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland
2022/01/31 - 2022/02/02	BioExcel/PerMedCoE PATC course on Introduction to HPC for Life scientists Workshop	Introduction to HPC for Life Scientists PRACE Advanced Training Centre, Belgium
2021/10/19 - 2021/10/22	Advanced Course: Computational Approaches to Understanding and Engineering Enzyme Catalysis Workshop	Computational Approaches to Understanding and Engineering Enzyme Catalysis Federation of European Biochemical Societies, United Kingdom
2021/09/09 - 2021/09/10	GROMACS WORKSHOP: A COLLABORATION BETWEEN BIOEXCEL AND NATIONAL EUROHPC COMPETENCE CENTER - PORTUGAL Workshop	GROMACS WORKSHOP BioData.pt, Portugal Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research, Sweden
2020/10/30 - 2021/01/29	Participação no Virtual Workshop on Best Practices in QM/MM Simulation of Biomolecular Systems Workshop	Virtual Workshop on Best Practices in QM/MM Simulation of Biomolecular Systems Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research, Sweden
2020/09/16 - 2020/09/17	Participação na 14th USERS CONFERENCE - Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) Conference	14th USERS CONFERENCE Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES), Spain
2019/07/24 - 2019/07/26	Participação no XXVI Encontro Nacional da SPQ - XXVIENSPQ Meeting	XXVI Encontro Nacional da SPQ - XXVIENSPQ Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
2019/04/13 - 2019/04/15	Participação no XII ENEBIOQ - Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Bioquímica 2019 Meeting	XII Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Bioquímica Núcleo de Estudantes de Química da Associação Académica da Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/04/06 - 2019/04/07	Participação no X Symposium on Bioengineering Symposium	X Symposium on Bioengineering Núcleo de Estudantes de Bioengenharia da FEUP e do ICBAS, Portugal
2019/03/29 - 2019/03/30	Participação nas V Jornadas da Bioquímica Meeting	V Jornadas da Bioquímica Núcleo de Bioquímica do Porto, Portugal
2019/02/13 - 2019/02/15	Participação no IJUP'19 - 12º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto Meeting	IJUP'19 - 12º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018/12/21 - 2018/12/21	Participação no 6º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores de Biologia Computacional Estrutural Meeting	6º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores de Biologia Computacional Estrutural Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2018/04/14 - 2018/04/15	Participação no IX Symposium on Bioengineering Symposium	IX Symposium on Bioengineering Núcleo de Estudantes de Bioengenharia da FEUP e do ICBAS, Portugal
2018/04/04 - 2018/04/04	Participação no Simpósio "Cognition, Emotion & Behavior: The brain at work" Symposium	Cognition, Emotion & Behavior: The brain at work Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2020/09 - 2021/09	Biotechnology for the degradation of plastics	Otávio D. Bissoli

Distinctions

Other distinction

2019	Best Oral Communication at IJUP 2019 Universidade do Porto, Portugal