António M. Baptista graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1988, where he then stayed until 1990 as a graduate student in Computational Chemistry. He then moved to the University of Porto, Portugal, where he was junior lecturer and member of the Theoretical Chemistry Group until 1991. From 1992 to 1995 he was a PhD student at the Magnetic Resonance Center of SINTEF Unimed, Trondheim, Norway, and then at Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Portugal, where he completed a PhD degree in Biochemistry in 1998. He then stayed at Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Portugal, first as a post-doc (1998-2003) and then as Assistant Investigator (2003-2013) and Principal Investigator (since 2014). He is head of the Molecular Simulation lab since 2003, working mainly on electrostatic processes in proteins (especially constant-pH molecular dynamics), and also protein misfolding, proteins in non-aqueous solvents, and peptide dendrimers, among others. Since its formation, the group comprises 3-6 members at a time, including master students, graduate students, PhD students and Post-Docs. He supervised 8 master students, 6 graduate students, 6 PhD students and 4 Post-Docs. He published around 90 articles in international peer-reviewed SCI journals and 4 in books, with a total of 4447 citations, an average of 50 citations per article and an h-index of 37 (Google Scholar, 2024-01-31). He regularly publishes in J. Chem. Theory Comput., J. Phys. Chem. B, J. Chem. Inf. Model., Biophys. J., Proteins, etc, which are among the top journals for modeling/simulation studies, and has also published in J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. and BBA - Bioenergetics. He presented 33 invited talks (the most relevant listed in section "Activities") and is co-author in around 150 other oral or poster communications at scientific conferences. After his PhD, he participated in 12 funded research projects, being the PI in 5 of them. His main expertise is the development and application of theoretical and computational methods to study protein electrostatics, especially constant-pH molecular dynamics methods for molecular simulation, in which he played a pioneering role, publishing the first methods using either continuous or discrete protonation variables, as well as the inclusion of ionic strength effects and proton isomerism. Some of this work has been done in collaboration with other modeling and experimental groups, both national and international (Milan, Berlin, Bern, Aalborg, Bilbao, Marseille, Amsterdam, etc). Since 2008, he is a regular invited speaker in the Workshop on Protein Electrostatics taking place at Telluride, CO, USA, which brings together the major workers in the field, both modelers and experimentalists, who have associated under the pKa Cooperative (http://www.pkacoop.org), organized to advance the development of accurate and useful computational methods for structure-based calculation of pKa values and electrostatic energy in proteins. In 2014 he organized the first Protein Electrostatics Conference, in Lisbon, which has since then been taking place regularly in Europe (Berlin 2016, Belgrade 2018, Genoa 2021 and 2023), usually with him as member of the Scientific Committee.