Juan A. Castillo-Garit obtained his degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (summa cum laude) from the Central University of Las Villas, Cuba, in 2001 and earned a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the same university in 2008. He completed several postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Valencia, Spain. For 12 years, he served as Associate Professor of General Toxicology and Ecotoxicology at the Central University of Las Villas. He then worked for seven years as a Senior Researcher in the Unit of Experimental Toxicology at the Medical University of Santa Clara, Cuba. He is currently a Full Professor at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile. His research interests include molecular modeling and drug discovery, chem-bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and ecotoxicological prediction. His major research projects have focused on the discovery of novel antiviral agents targeting the main protease of SARS-CoV-2, the identification of drug candidates against parasites such as Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania spp., through computational design, synthesis, characterization, and experimental validation and the development of new compounds inhibitors of enzymes involved in blood pressure control. His teaching disciplines are chemoinformatics, ecotoxicology, and medicinal chemistry. He has published over 50 papers in JCR journals and serves as reviewer for more than 30 journals.