25 Facts About Santiago Schnell

Santiago Schnell FRSB FRSC is a scientist and academic leader, currently serving as the William K Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, as well as a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, and Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics.

Santiago Schnell earned his undergraduate degree in biology from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela and later obtained his doctorate in mathematical biology from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Santiago Schnell pursued his doctoral and postdoctoral research under the supervision of Philip Maini, FRS in the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford.

Santiago Schnell was assistant professor of Informatics and associate director of the Biocomplexity Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington between 2004 and 2008.

Santiago Schnell served as the Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Biosciences, and is a member of the Standards for Reporting Enzymology Data Commission.

Santiago Schnell's research program departs from the premise that there is a continuum between health and disease; if we are capable of measuring this continuum, we will be in the position of detecting disease earlier and understanding it better to intervene more precisely.

Santiago Schnell's research focuses on two broad areas: the development of standard-methods to obtain high quality measurements in the biomedical sciences and scientometrics, and the development of mathematical models of complex biomedical systems with the goal of identifying the key mechanisms underlying the behavior of the system as a whole.

Santiago Schnell has focused his research attention on deriving mathematical expressions to estimate enzyme kinetics parameters under different reaction conditions.

Santiago Schnell has systematically obtained equations to estimate kinetic parameters for the family of Michaelis-Menten reaction mechanisms and determined their region of validity for the initial enzyme and substrate concentrations.

Santiago Schnell derived a generic expression, known nowadays as the Santiago Schnell-Mendoza equation, to determine the Michaelis constant and maximum velocity for enzyme catalyzed reactions following Michaelis-Menten kinetics using time course data.

Santiago Schnell has systematically investigated for the first time how the rate laws describing intracellular reactions vary as a function of the physico-chemical conditions of the intracellular environments.

Santiago Schnell's work has focused to resolve the ambiguities in the quantitative analysis and modeling of reactions inside cells.

Santiago Schnell's work has been highlighted in popular science magazines, such as American Scientist, Investigacion y Ciencia, Spektrum der Wissenschaft.

Santiago Schnell has garnered some accolades for his research and teaching endeavors.

Santiago Schnell received the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence from the School of Informatics at Indiana University in 2006.

Santiago Schnell was visiting professor of Excellence, Department of Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Santiago Schnell is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

Santiago Schnell is a Corresponding Member of the pt:Academia de Ciencias da America Latina.

Santiago Schnell is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished contributions to the field of mathematical biology, particularly for the theoretical modeling of complex biochemical reactions and optimal estimation of their rates.

Santiago Schnell made major gains in fundraising for the Society.

Santiago Schnell's efforts resulted in a four-fold increase of the Society's endowment.

Santiago Schnell stewarded an increase of the diversity of trainees in the department's educational programs, which now consist of nearly one-third underrepresented minorities.

Santiago Schnell contributed to the expansion of the University of Notre Dame East Campus Research Complex with the addition of a 200,000-square-foot science and engineering building.

Additionally, Santiago Schnell established the Notre Dame Christmas lectures; this event is an annual gift of science to the community adapted the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Santiago Schnell is married to Mariana, with whom he shares two children, Andrea and David.