Personal profile in our Scientific Output Portal (PPC) 

Short biographical sketch

PhD from the Universitat de Barcelona. 

After finishing my phD thesis, I went to the Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute- Harvard University ( Division of Biostatistics). I was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Temple F. Smith. In late 1991, I moved to the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center at Boston University, when Temple F. Smith was named director. During these years, I was involved in several projects in the field of sequence analysis: gene identification, automatic knowledge extraction from biosequence databases, protein sequence pattern analysis, and molecular evolution.

On Spring 1992, I moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory , where I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group with Dr. James W. Fickett. At Los Alamos I worked essentially on genome analysis related problems: estimation of genome's protein coding density, and characterization of large scale genome structure.

During the period 1994-1999 I was associated with the Department of Statistics of the Universitat de Barcelona and betqeen 1994-2010 I was a researcher at the Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, within the Grup de Recerca en Informàtica Biomèdica (GRIB).

In 1999 I was appointed associated professor with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Since year 2001 I am coordinating the Bioinformatics and Genomics program at the Centre de Regulació Genòmica in Barcelona and since 2005 I am Full Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.