Jean-Didier graduated at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris and did his PhD in Bioorganic and Computational Chemistry with a Marie Curie Fellowship at the UAB. After post-doctoral experiences in Leicester, Manchester and Paris, and he now leads the InSilichem group at the UAB. J.-D. Marechal main fields of research are the design of natural and synthetic metallopeptides, artificial metalloenzymes and .metallodrugs with applications in biocatalysis, drug design and neurodegenerative diseases. InSilichem is also the place where an integrative computational framework for computational chemistry TANGRAM and the 3D molecular sketcher GaudiMM are developed. Both are expected to provide added value to nowadays computational chemistry.