Researcher
Pedro J. Silva is an Associate Professor at Universidade Fernando Pessoa, where he lectures Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry. His work is mainly devoted to the study of mechanisms of organic chemistry and biochemistry reactions, as well as, the in silico development of enzymatic inhibitors. He has published 30 papers in ISI-indexed journals, with over 600 citations in the field. He became an Associate Editor at PeerJ in 2015, where he has since 2018 become responsible (as Section Editor) for the supervision of the editorial decisions of >60 editors in the fields of Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology.