Ernesto Estrada

Ernesto Estrada (born 2 May 1966) is a Cuban-Spanish scientist. He is the Chair in Complexity Science, Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and a member of the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He is known by his contributions in different disciplines including chemistry, and the mathematics and physics of Complex Systems.

Estrada was born in the city of Sancti Spiritus, in the central region of Cuba. Since the age of 11 he studied in a school which specialized in exact sciences. He later studied for a technical degree as an analytical chemist in a technological institute in Havana. At the age of 18 he presented his first scientific paper in an international congress together with his mentor, Dr. Jose F. Fernandez-Bertran. The paper was about the detection of polyatomic anions in matrices of NaCl using infrared spectroscopy. Between 1985 and 1990, he studied chemical sciences at the Central University of Las Villas in Santa Clara, Cuba, where he obtained his degree in only 4 of the 5 years established for the program. In the first years after graduation, Estrada investigated the synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of new organic molecules with biological activity. This research introduced him to the world of computational chemistry due to the requirement of using efficient methods to design biologically active molecules. In 1997, he obtained his Ph.D in Chemistry under the direction of Prof. Luis A. Montero Cabrera on the topic of "Graph Theory Applied to Molecular Design". By this time, Estrada had published 8 scientific papers in major chemistry journals.

After completing his Ph.D., Estrada spent some time as post-doctoral research at the University of Valencia, Spain working with Prof. Jorge Galvez and at the Lisa-Meitner Institute for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem with Prof. David Avnir. In 2000, he officially emigrated to Spain where he obtained a fellowship at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Between 2002 and 2003, Estrada worked as a scientist at the Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre, Unilever in Colworth, U.K. He then obtained a position as "Ramon y Cajal" researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Since 2008, Estrada occupies the newly created Chair in Complexity Science at the University of Strathclyde and has published more than 160 papers, 10 book Chapters and 2 books. He is a Cuban and Spanish citizen, resident in Scotland, U.K.

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