Pedro Mendes is a professor of the University of Connecticut (University of Connecticut Health Center, Center for Quantitative Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, and Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling.). His backgroun is in Biochemistry at the University of Lisboa and obtained his PhD at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, the Computer simulation of the dynamics of biochemical pathways), under the supervision of Douglas B. Kell. Mendes has published more than 120 manuscripts having a total of 17734 citations and h-index of 49 according to Google Scholar. His background is in Biochemistry and computer science. He has interest and research in both areas and their joint application. His area of research is in computational  systems biology, where he has demonstrated leadership in biochemical modeling and simulation; he was the author of Gepasi, a popular and pioneering software package for modeling biochemical networks, which then became COPASI, now one of the top simulators for systems biology.