José Francisco Costa Rubio
PhD Candidate · BIO-HPC Research Group · UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia
Bioinformatician with a chemistry background, working at the intersection of sustainable synthesis, machine learning and HPC for computational drug discovery.
Background
José Francisco holds a BSc in Biochemistry (Universidad de Murcia, 2024) and an MSc in Bioinformatics (Universidad de Murcia, 2025, grade 9.04/10). During the final two years of his undergraduate studies he was an internal student in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Immunology at UMU, in the Green Chemistry group of Prof. Pedro Lozano, where he completed his final-year project on the sustainable synthesis of cosmeceutical antioxidants.
His undergraduate experience covered hands-on biocatalysis and analytical chemistry — HPLC, GC, NMR and FTIR. The MSc in Bioinformatics added a strong computational layer: statistics, Python and R for data analysis, machine learning, semantic data and high-performance computing.
At BIO-HPC, José Francisco brings together this combined wet-lab and computational training to support the group’s drug-discovery pipeline.
Focus areas
Computational drug discovery
Virtual screening, molecular modelling and ML pipelines for early-stage hit identification within the BIO-HPC stack.
Sustainable chemistry & biocatalysis
Background in green chemistry, ionic-liquid biocatalysis and sustainable synthesis of antioxidant compounds.
HPC & machine learning
Python/R-based data analysis, machine-learning models and HPC workflows applied to biological data.
Selected publications
- Sustainable Synthesis of New Antioxidants from Hydroxytyrosol by Direct Biocatalytic Esterification in Ionic Liquids.