👋 Hi, I’m @anfelvas (Andrés Felipe Vásquez)
🧪🌱 Computational biochemist | Natural product innovation
🌎 Based at Computational Chemistry Group – IPB Halle (Germany)
👀 I’m currently interested in:
- AI-powered cheminformatics & explainable models
- Natural products and chemical space expansion
- Biodiversity-linked drug discovery and science diplomacy
- AI/ML for retrosynthesis and pharmacophore modeling
- Metabolomics and biosynthetic gene cluster mining for NP discovery 🔬🧬
📖🧬 I’m currently working on:
- Simulation of carbohydrate-based microgels for agricultural applications, with focus on force field merging strategies (namely GLYCAM06j-1 + GAFF2) for large-scale AA-MD simulations
- Fragment-based drug discovery (FBLD) approaches for drug design and discovery
- Chemodiversity and chemical space modeling
- A One Health knowledge graph connecting plants, natural products, and diseases
- Knowledge graph–driven drug discovery 🧠🔗
- Linking chemodiversity and biodiversity for biotech innovation
- Science-policy interface for biodiversity and bioeconomy
🤝 I’m open to collaborations in:
- Bioprospecting from plants, fungi, bacteria, and marine organisms 🌿🧫🌊
- Natural product–inspired compound design and optimization 💊🧪
- Structure-, ligand-, and complex-based virtual screening
- Omics-guided drug discovery & biodiversity informatics
- Ethnopharmacology, chemical ecology, biogeography, and traditional knowledge integration
- Post-extraction recovery and habitat restoration (reforesting ecology)
- Development of novel government-advised strategies and policy briefs on bioprospecting, medicine, startups, and STEM education
📫 Reach me at:
- Email: avasquez@ipb-halle.de ✉️
- You can also find my profile on Codecademy: anfelvas83
🔍Learn more about my work:
- https://www.ipb-halle.de/en/research/bioorganic-chemistry (Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, IPB-Halle) 🌐
- https://dissmeyerlab.academia.edu/AndrésVásquez
- https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/MIT-8461-2025
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=es&user=p4BwojkAAAAJ
- https://x.com/anfelvas