People

Juan R. González

Group Leader Bioinformatic Research Group in Epidemiology (BRGE) at ISGlobal

  • Associate Research Professor, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
  • Adjunct Professor Department of Mathematics, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

Alejandro Caceres

Statistician

  • Studies: Physics (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), PhD in Physics (Cambridge University).
  • Work-field: Genetic structural variants, development and implementation of data analysis methods.
  • Topic: Polymorphic inversions and association genetic studies.

Dolors Pelegrí

Bioinformatic Technician and Pre-Doctoral Researcher

  • Studies: Informatics (BSc – UdL), Statistics (BSc – UAB) and Omics Data Analysis (MSc – UVic), PhD in Bioinformatics (UAB – Current).
  • Work-field: Bioinformatics, statistics, software development.
  • Topic: Perform Scalable computational methods for the analysis of big data in precision medicine.

Xavier Escribà-Montagut

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

  • Studies: BSc Aerospace Engineering (UPC), MSc Aerospace Engineering (UPC), MSc Data Science (UAB), PhD in Bioinformatics (UAB – Current).
  • Work-field: Bioinformatics, software development, DataSHIELD.
  • Topic: Developing omics and exposome analysis, distributed machine learning methods and GUI for the DataSHIELD infrastructure.

Laura Balagué-Dobón

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

  • Studies: BSc Genetics (UAB), MSc Bioinformatics (UAB), PhD in Bioinformatics (UAB – Current).
  • Work-field: Bioinformatics, genetics, data processing.
  • Topic: Structural variants analysis for disease association studies.

Natàlia Carreras-Gallo

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

  • Studies: BSc Genetics (UAB), MSc Bioinformatics (UAB), PhD in Biomedicine (UPF – Current).
  • Work-field: Genetics, Bioinformatics, data analysis, wet lab, cell-free DNA.
  • Topic: Design of a cell-free DNA biomarker for cancer in man based on the state of Y chromosome.

Leire Abarrategui

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

  • Studies: Informatics (BSc – UdL), Statistics (BSc – UAB) and Omics Data Analysis (MSc – UVic), PhD in Bioinformatics (UAB – Current).
  • Work-field: Bioinformatics, statistics, software development.
  • Topic: Perform Scalable computational methods for the analysis of big data in precision medicine.

Merche Montero

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

  • Studies: Biotechnology (BSc – Universidad de León), and Advanced Genetics (MSc – UAB), Industrial PhD in Biomedicine (UPF – Current).
  • Work-field: Next-generation sequencing, genetics, bioinformatics.
  • Topic: Develop a next-generation sequencing based test for the fast and cost-effective SARS-Cov-2 differential diagnosis and variant detection

External collaborators

Carlos Ruiz-Arenas

Postdoctoral Researcher at DCEX-UPF (Genetics Unit)

Luis A. Pérez-Jurado

Leader of the Human Genetics Research Group at DCEX-UPF

Isaac Subirana Cachinero

Postdoctoral Researcher at IMIM

Jose Urquiza

Data Manager at ISGlobal

Alumni

  • Aina Jané
  • Alba Beltran
  • Alba Serrano
  • Carles Hernández-Ferrer
  • Dietmar Fernández-Orth 
  • Harry Odell
  • Marcos López-Sánchez
  • Marta Vives
  • Natalia Vilor
  • Pol Cuscó