Katarzyna Świderek

Senior researcher

Research Group: RG9. Computational Biochemistry

Office: TC1203DD

Workphone: +34964728070

E-mail: swiderek@uji.es

Address:
Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM)
Universitat Jaume I
12006 Castelló
Spain

Researcher information:

Personal website: http://www.biocomp.uji.es/swiderek/home.html

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7528-1551

Researcher ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-2851-2012

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=https://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=pl&user=kntRtkUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Bio and research interests
Kasia studied Chemistry and obtained her Master's (2007) and PhD (2011) degrees in Physical Chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology (Poland), under the supervision of Prof. P. Paneth. During 2007, she was working in a crystallographic laboratory in the Institute of Technical Biochemistry at the same University, and in 2008, she stayed 3 months in the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Leipzig (Germany), funded by an AXIOM - Marie Curie Host Fellowship. In 2011, she moved to the University of Valencia (Spain) for her first postdoctoral stay under the supervision of Professor I. Tuñón, until the end of 2014. In 2015, she obtained a 3-year contract in an NIH project (National Institute of Health, USA) as a postdoctoral researcher at University Jaume I (UJI, Spain) under the supervision of Professors V. Moliner (UJI) and A. Kohen (University of Iowa, USA). At the same time, she became principal investigator (PI) of a “Iuventus Plus” project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education dedicated to the talented young researchers (under 35). In 2017, she spent 6 months in the laboratory of Professor I. H. Williams at the University of Bath (UK). In 2018, she obtained a two-year Juan de la Cierva-Incorporation contract from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness that allowed her to be involved in the projects conducted in the BioComp group at Universitat Jaume I. In 2020, she obtained a 3-year contract as a PI in a JIN project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities at the same University, and her research is funded by SEJI 2020 (Scientific Excellence Junior Researchers Grants) program of the Valencian Regional Government and a project funded by UJI, in which she is also PI. Between 2022-2024, she was contracted as a Ramon y Cajal fellow at UJI, and in December 2024, she was promoted to Associate Professor (Profesor Titular).

Publications

2025

Nature Methods, 2025, 22, 641.

Amaro, R.E.; Åqvist, J.; Bahar, I.; Battistini, F.; Bellaiche, A.; Beltran, D.; Biggin, P.C.; Bonomi, M.; Bowman, G.R.; Bryce, R.; Bussi, G.; Carloni, P.; Case, D.; Cavalli, A.; Chang, C.E.A.; Cheung, M.S.; Chipot, C.; Chong, L.T.; Choudhary, P.; Cisneros, G.A.; Clementi, C.; Collepardo-Guevara, R.; Coveney, P.; Covino, R.; Crawford, T.D.; Peraro, M.D.; de Groot, B.; Delemotte, L.; Vivo, M.D.; Essex, J.; Fraternali, F.; Gao, J.; Gelpí, J.L.; Gervasio, F.L.; Gonzalez-Nilo, F.D.; Grubmüller, H.; Guenza, M.; Guzman, H.V.; Harris, S.; Head-Gordon, T.; Hernandez, R.; Hospital, A.; Huang, N.; Huang, X.; Hummer, G.; Iglesias-Fernández, J.; Jensen, J.H.; Jha, S.; Jiao, W.; Jorgensen, W.L.; Kamerlin, S.C.L.; Khalid, S.; Laughton, C.; Levitt, M.; Limongelli, V.; Lindahl, E.; Lindorff-Larsen, K.; Loverde, S.; Lundborg, M.; Luo, Y.L.; Luque, F.J.; Lynch, C.I.; MacKerell, A.; Magistrato, A.; Marrink, S.J.; Martin, H.; McCammon, J.A.; Merz, K.; Moliner, V.; Mulholland, A.; Murad, S.; Naganathan, A.N.; Nangia, S.; Noe, F.; Noy, A.; Oláh, J.; O’Mara, M.; Ondrechen, M.J.; Onuchic, J.N.; Onufriev, A.; Osuna, S.; Panchenko, A.R.; Pantano, S.; Parish, C.; Parrinello, M.; Perez, A.; Perez-Acle, T.; Perilla, J.R.; Pettitt, B.M.; Pietropalo, A.; Piquemal, J.P.; Poma, A.; Praprotnik, M.; Ramos, M.J.; Ren, P.; Reuter, N.; Roitberg, A.; Rosta, E.; Rovira, C.; Roux, B.; Röthlisberger, U.; Sanbonmatsu, K.Y.; Schlick, T.; Shaytan, A.K.; Simmerling, C.; Smith, J.C.; Sugita, Y.; Świderek, K.; Taiji, M.; Tao, P.; Tikhonova, I.G.; Tirado-Rives, J.; Tuñón, I.; Kamp, M.W.V. d.; der Spoel, D.V.; Velankar, S.; Voth, G.A.; Wade, R.; Warshel, A.; Welborn, V.V.; Wetmore, S.; Wong, C.F.; Yang, L.W.; Zacharias, M.; Orozco, M.

The need to implement FAIR principles in biomolecular simulations.

Article page: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02635-0
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2025,

Bemelmans, M.; Wetzel, B.; Neusius, F.; Tieves, F.; Schwarz, C.; Mateljak, I.; Świderek, K.; Moliner, V.; Alcalde, M.; Sieber, V.

Engineering the Tobacco Etch Virus Protease toward a Platform for Traceless Cleavage Using Distal Site Prediction and Smart Library Design.

Article page: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acssynbio.5c00423
Chemical Science, 2025, 16, 14509.

Gabirondo, E.; Maiz-Iginitz, A.; Ximenis, M.; Świderek, K.; Andrés-Sanz, D.; Moliner, V.; Cabedo, L.; Westlie, A.H.; Chen, E.Y.X.; Cerrón-Infantes, A.; Unterlass, M.M.; Gallego, L.; Etxeberria, A.; Sardon, H.

Selective chemical recycling of polyhydroxybutyrate into high-value hydroxy acid using Taurine organocatalyst.

Article page: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d5sc02196k#!divAbstract
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2025, 16, 3249.

Casalino, L.; Ramos-Guzmán, C.A.; Amaro, R.E.; Simmerling, C.; Lodola, A.; Mulholland, A.J.; Świderek, K.; Moliner, V.

A Reflection on the Use of Molecular Simulation to Respond to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Threats.

Article page: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03654
WIREs Computational Molecular Science , 2025, 15, e70003.

Świderek, K.; Bertran, J.; Zinovjev, K.; Tuñón, I.; Moliner, V.

Advances in the Simulations of Enzyme Reactivity in the Dawn of the Artificial Intelligence Age.

Article page: https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcms.70003