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Dr. Germán Miguel Pérez Quintana, PhD

Assistant Professor (LTA), Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Dr. Germán Miguel Pérez Quintana, PhD
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 3338
Email: german.perez@concordia.ca
Availability: From 2 to 5 pm on Wednesdays

Current Position

Assistant Professor (LTA) at ConcordiaUniversity


Education

2011 – 2015        Ph. D. Chemistry. University ofHavana, Cuba.

1999 – 2004        BSc., Chemistry. University of Havana,Cuba.



Teaching activities

CHEM 205

General Chemistry I

CHEM 234

Physical Chemistry I. Thermodynamics

Other teaching experiences

2020 – date

Assistant Professor (LTA). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University (Montreal)

·    General Chemistry (CHEM 205)

·    Thermodynamics (CHEM 234)

2020

Chemistry Teacher (Continued Education). Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Technology. Dawson College (Montreal)

·    Remedial Activities for Secondary V Chemistry (CHEM 202)

2016 – 2018

Adjunct Professor. Faculty of Chemistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile)

·    General and Organic Chemistry (QIM201A) for Kinesiology students (3 semesters)

·    General and Organic Chemistry (QIM201A) for Nutrition and Dietetics freshmen students (3 semesters)

·    General Chemistry (QIM201G) for freshmen Agronomy students (2 semesters)

·    Fundamental Organic Chemistry (QIM200) to college students (1 semester)

2009 – 2015

Assistant Professor. Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana (Cuba)

·    General Chemistry for first-year students in the Food Science career (6 semesters)

·    Experimental Chemistry for freshmen Chemistry students (4 semesters)

·    General Chemistry laboratories for students from different careers (14 semesters)

2006 – 2007

Adjunct Professor. Faculty of Informatics, Technological University of Havana (Cuba)

·    Database Management Systems for Informatics students (1 semester)

·    Programming I for freshmen Informatics students (1 semester)

2002 – 2003

Teacher. Secondary School Abraham Lincoln (Cuba)

·    Chemistry (Introductory course) for 9th-grade students (2 semesters)



Research activities

Research

2015 – 2018

Postdoctoral Fellow in FONDECYT Postdoctorado 2016 Studies of structure-properties relationship in polymers synthesis. Integration of virtual screening for obtaining and processing chemical libraries based on properties of interest, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile)

2011 – 2015

Ph. D. Student in the Development of computational methodologies for the discovery of new peptide-based receptors, at the University of Havana (Cuba)

2014

Responsible researcher in DGSP Fellowship Virtual screening approach for identification of peptide-based receptors for aroma molecules, at the University of Teramo (Italy)

2011 – 2012

Researcher in AECID Project España/Cuba Virtual Center of Bioinformatics at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) / University of Havana (Cuba)

2010 – 2012

Collaborator in IRSES Project  Electrochemical biosensors as new generation of biotechnological devices for food safety and quality monitoring, at the University of Teramo (Italy)

2010 – 2012

Collaborator in IRSES Project  Biomimetic sensors as new generation of biotechnological devices for food safety and quality monitoring, at the University of Teramo (Italy)

2006 – 2008

Researcher in national project Study of biomolecules interaction networks using a bioinformatics approach, at the National Bioinformatics Centre (Cuba)

2004 – 2006

Researcher in national project Extraction of relevant biological information from families of proteins, at the National Bioinformatics Centre (Cuba)




Publications

Selected publications

1.       C.A.Terraza, P. Ortiz, L.H. Tagle, G. Perez, C. Saldias, F.E. Rodriguez-Gonzalez,G. Cabrera-Barjas, H. Catalan, A. Tundidor-Camba, D. Coll, Synthesis andProperties of Poly(imides) and Poly(imides)/Ionic Liquid Composites Bearing aBenzimidazole Moiety, Polymers, 11 (2019).

2.       G. Pérez,C.A. Terraza, D. Coll, P. Ortiz, M. Aguilar-Vega, D.M. González, L.H. Tagle, A.Tundidor-Camba, Synthesis and characterization of processable fluorinatedaromatic poly(benzamide imide)s derived from cycloalkane substituted diamines,and their application in a computationally driven synthesis methodology,Polymer, 162 (2019) 121-129.

3.       I.A.Jessop, L.H. Tagle, D. Coll, P. Ortiz, G. Pérez, C.A. Terraza, A.Tundidor-Camba, Oligomeric poly(ether-imide)s bearing ortho trifluoromethylgroups: Solubility, thermal studies, and optical properties, J. Appl.Polym. Sci., 135 (2018).

4.       M.Mascini, C. Montesano, G. Perez, J. Wang, D. Compagnone, M. Sergi, Selectivesolid phase extraction of JWH synthetic cannabinoids by using computationallydesigned peptides, Talanta, 167 (2017) 126-133.

5.       G.M.Perez, L.A. Salomon, L.A. Montero-Cabrera, J.M. de la Vega, M. Mascini, Integratingsampling techniques and inverse virtual screening: toward the discovery ofartificial peptide-based receptors for ligands, Mol Divers, 20 (2016)421-438.


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