I am a Computational Biologist and Bioinformatician with background in Computatitonal Neuroscience and Computational Physics. My research focuses on genome and proteome evolution. During the last years, I have dedicated my efforts to quantitatively understand how the genetic architecture of life was transformed during the Eukaryogenesis to allow such an increase of complexity: multicellularity, sexuality, sociability, central nervous system, and so on.

I have always been passionate about interdisciplinary teams. My most recent one includes an astronomer, a mathematical-physicist, and an evolutionary biologist, alongside myself. Independently, quantitative biology and multidisciplinarity have been my approach to research since the very beginning of my career.

Positions held

Since 2014 
Principal investigator (tenured), Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Mainz, Germany

2007-2014 
Research associate, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

2003-2007 
Postdoctoral researcher at the Molecular Medicine department, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

2000-2003 
Software engineer (Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Web), Madrid, Spain

1999-2000 
Predoctoral researcher at CAB (NASA Astrobiology Institute), INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

1998 
Visiting Predoctoral researcher (Summer), Computer Science department, University of Texas, Austin, USA

1997 
Visiting Predoctoral researcher (Summer), Institut für Neuroinformatik. Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany

1996 
Visiting Predoctoral researcher (Summer), Laboratorio de Computaçaõ, Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Goias, Goiania, Brazil

1995-1999 
Predoctoral researcher at the Computer Science department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Education

2000   
PhD in Computational Physics, Faculty of Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

1994 
BSc and MSc in Physics, Faculty of Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain