{"id":284,"date":"2014-10-15T13:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:25:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:25:02","slug":"claudio-soares-statement-in-favour-of-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/claudio-soares-statement-in-favour-of-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudio Soares: Statement in Favour of Candidacy for CODATA Executive Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the second\u00a0in the series of short statements from candidates in the forthcoming CODATA Elections. Claudio Soares is a new candidate, not currently serving on the Executive Committee. \u00a0He is\u00a0the nominee of IUPAB, the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Claudio-Soares.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-285\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Claudio-Soares-273x300.png\" alt=\"Claudio Soares\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Claudio-Soares-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Claudio-Soares.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a>Name of Candidate: Claudio M. Soares<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Affiliation: International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nationality: Portuguese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In nominating Dr. Claudio M. Soares as an Ordinary Member of the CODATA Executive Committee, the IUPAB points out that he has been an active scientist in the fields of biomolecular modelling and simulation and structural bioinformatics for more than 24 years. This mostly computational work is highly relevant, requiring large amounts of data processing and data standards, putting him in a particularly privileged situation to understand and foster CODATA\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>He works in the larger field of structural biology, and has a considerable knowledge and understanding of the importance of structural and sequence data on biomolecules for the advancement of Life and Health Sciences. These two areas (structural and sequence data) are the ones where he can be most useful to the operations of CODATA.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, Dr. Soares\u2019 scientific and academic experience and contributions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The management and participation in scientific societies (Portuguese Biophysical Society, Portuguese Biochemical Society, IUPAB)<\/li>\n<li>Chairperson of the Portuguese Biophysical Society between 2002 and 2008<\/li>\n<li>Experience in the management of academic institutions as Dean of ITQB, a Research and Training Institution belonging to the New University of Lisbon<\/li>\n<li>Since 1994 he has published 95 research publications (ISI) with a h-factor of 30<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second\u00a0in the series of short statements from candidates in the forthcoming CODATA Elections. Claudio Soares is a new candidate, not currently serving on the Executive Committee. \u00a0He is\u00a0the nominee of IUPAB, the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics. Name of Candidate: Claudio M. Soares Affiliation: International Union for Pure and Applied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}