E-Mail : raulpjc@biology.columbia.edu
Phone : (212) 854 9474

I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of Granada under the supervision of Dr. Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz and Dr. Beatriz Ibarra-Molero. My thesis work focused mainly in an attempt to define the role of surface charge interactions in protein stability as well as the study of the evolutive information obtained from sequence alignments and its consequences in protein folding, structure and stability. My interest now is focused in the study of the protein folding as well as the mechanical stability using Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy. The techniques developed in Dr. Fernandez's Lab have become a powerful tool for the study of protein folding/unfolding processes under a stretching force in a new manner that reveals features of proteins non accessible with bulk techniques. I am interested in the use of the Force-clamp techniques to understand how a protein finds the way to fold into a native state and what are the more important aspects involved.