Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés received his PhD in Chemistry from the Universidad de La Rioja in 2007, working on asymmetric organic synthesis, then moved to Universidad de Zaragoza as a lecturer to work on metal catalysis, and then to University of California Los Angeles, to work with Ken Houk as a postdoctoral researcher on computational chemistry and enzyme design. He started his independent career as a Ramon y Cajal research fellow in 2015 back in University of La Rioja and joined CIC BioGUNE in 2019 as Principal Investigator of the Computational Chemistry Group. In September 2020 he was promoted to Ikerbasque Research Associate and in 2023 to Ikerbasque Research Professor. He is also a lecturer on metabolic chemistry in Deusto University. His research is highly collaborative and cross-disciplinary and uses multiscale computer simulations and wet lab validation to predict and understand complex chemical and biological processes, with special focus on protein design, bioorthogonal chemistry and molecular recognition.