Since graduating from the University of Oriente, Cuba, Alejandro has swiftly been making a name for himself as a leading expert in computational tools for multi-scale drug discovery. In the past 5 years, he has published 54 papers which have been cited in excess of 640 times, giving him a personal field-weighted citation impact of 2.19. He has collaborated with teams from around the globe, and his research interests include chemo-bioinformatics, computer-aided drug design, computational toxicology, QSPR/QSAR/QSTR, peptide discovery, antimicrobial research, anticancer research and neurodegenerative diseases.