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I am a computational chemist with research interests in quantum chemistry, artificial intelligence, and software development. I obtained my PhD in 2014 from the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (UB), under the supervision of Prof. Juan J. Novoa and Dr. Merc\u00e8 Deumal. After that, I moved to Strasbourg, where I spent three and a half years at the Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique. 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