Curriculum Vitae

Relevant Professional and Scientific Experience
  • Oct 2006 - Present : Postdoctoral researcher at the Design of Biological Systems Group of the Center for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona, Spain), with Dr. Luis Serrano (CRG-Novartis contract).
  • Sep 2005 - Sep 2006 : Bioinformatician at the Bioinformatics Unit of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (Madrid, Spain), with Dr. Díaz-Uriarte.
  • Apr 2004 - Aug 2005 : Research Associate at The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, CA, USA), with Dr. Adam Godzik
  • Apr 2003 - Jun 2003 : Volunteer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego (La Jolla, CA) with Dr. Phil Bourne.
  • Jan 2002 - Dec 2002 : Programmer in a company in Barcelona, Spain
  • Oct 1999 - Dec 2001 : Webmaster at the Divisió de Ciències Experimentals i Matemàtiques of the Universitat de Barcelona

Education
  • 1997-2001 - Ph.D. (cum laude) in Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Advisors: Ramon Canal and Javier Labay. Thesis title: Galactic Chemical Evolution and the Problem of Light Elements (available, upon request)
  • 1993-1997 - B.S. - Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Web applications
  • IDconverter: Conversion of gene/clone/protein identifiers.
  • IDClight: Light version of IDconverter
  • PaLS: Pathway and Literature Strainer
  • Asterias: Suite for the analysis of genomic data
  • preP: Preprocessing tools for microarray data

Conferences
  • 2006 7th Spanish Symposium on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Zaragoza, Spain). Posters: PaLS: Pathway and Literature Strainer and Asterias: a parallelized web-based suite for the analysis of gene expression and aCGH data
  • 2005 4th European Conference on Computational Biology (Madrid, Spain). Poster: Network Analysis of Proteins: Thermostability and Compactness
  • 2005 Modeling of Protein Interactions in Genomes (Lawrence, Kansas, USA). Poster: Network Analysis of Proteins: Thermostability and Compactness
  • 2004 Jornades de Bioinformàtica (Barcelona, Spain).

  • 2000 Cosmic Evolution conference (Paris, France). Poster: Galactic chemical evolution and the abundances of lithium, beryllium and boron
  • 1999 The Light Elements and their Evolution conference (Natal, Brazil). Poster: Light Element Evolution at the Solar Neighborhood
  • 1998 LiBeB, Cosmic Rays, and Related X- and Gamma-Rays conference (Paris, France). Talk: Light Element Evolution in the Galactic Halo

Computer Skills
  • Languages: Java, Visual Basic, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, C, C#, Fortran, Python, Perl, HTML, SQL, ASP, .NET
  • Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat), Macintosh
  • Database experience: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Vantive
  • Other: Apache 1.3 and 2.0

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