José M. S. Pereira is a Biochemistry PhD student at CICECO-University of Aveiro Institute of Materials since 2018. He finished his Master’s on Biotechnology in the University of Aveiro, where the focus of his thesis was on the subject of bioremediation of waste water sources by filtration with activated bio-carbons. As a product of his Master’s thesis, José Pereira developed http://carbgen.web.ua.pt/, a peer-reviewed online tool for the design of atomic carbon models. Starting his PhD, José Pereira shifted his focus for the computational design of peptides, while continuing to pursue scientific software development. He participated in the Board of European Students of Technology 2017 Winter Course, in Paris, France, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for a 4-month student exchange at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, and won the TOP3 award at European Innovation Academy 2021 for his work on ProtoSyn (https://github.com/sergio-santos-group/ProtoSyn.jl), the developed software on the scope of his PhD thesis. He authored 2 peer-reviewed papers and participated in over 20 conferences.