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I’m a last year PhD Student in Computational Biology working with single-cell omics data at the Tape Lab. Interested in looking into cancer, plasticity and how the tumour micro-environment and genetic alterations interact to control these processes. Always eager to learn new things!
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Curriculum vitae
Brief CV
A PDF copy of this CV can be downloaded from here
Detailed Experience and Education
PhD in Computational Biology
UCL Cancer Institute
Sep 2019 - Present (3 years 10 months)
Using novel computational approaches to study CRC tumour microenvironment organoids through single-cell technologies.
UCL-Yale collaboration
Yale University
Aug 2022 - Present (11 months)
3 month stay at Prof. Smita Krishnaswamy’s lab as part of the UCL-Yale exchange programme. Currently working with Aarthi Venkat on developing new methods to analyse multi-omics data to characterise inter- and intra-cellular communications using graph-based approaches.
CyGNAL
UCL
Sep 2019 - Present (3 years 10 months)
Pipeline for analysing and visualising CyTOF datasets through PTM signalling networks and cell-state classification via ensemble methods.
VRland
UCL
Sep 2019 - Present (3 years 10 months)
Valley-Ridge score to generate data-driven Waddington-like landscapes of cellular plasticity and differentiation from single-cell RNA Sequencing datasets.
Teaching Tutorials
UCL
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023 (2 months)
Teaching tutorials for the CINS0018: Pathogens and Cancer 22/23 course (Dr Thiru Surentheran being the module tutor).
MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology
Imperial College London Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
MSc Project 3 - AnnoRE pipeline
Imperial College London
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 (4 months)
Bioinformatics pipeline for downstream annotation of genetic variants and metabolomics high-throughput data to study complex trait diseases.
MSc Project 2 - scRNA-seq data analysis
Imperial College London
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019 (3 months)
Analysis of single-cell transcriptomic datasets to characterise cardiac development.
MSc Project 1 - FBA app back-end
Imperial College London
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019 (4 months)
Group project developing MetEOr, an online tool for visualising and performing Flux Balance Analysis on whole-organism metabolic models.
BSc in Biotechnology
Universitat de Barcelona Sep 2012 - Sep 2014
Erasmus Student
Queen Mary University of London
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018 (9 months)
Studied the relationship between inflammation and adamantinomatous craniopharyngiomas, under the supervision of Dr. Rachael Tan and Dr. Carles Gaston-Massuet group at the Centre for Endocrinology
Visiting Student
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017 (3 months)
Contribution to the research group of “Pluripotent stem cells and activation of endogenous tissue programs for organ regeneration” lead by PhD. Núria Montserrat.
English Second Language Teacher
Liberty Bell Academy
2013 - Jan 2018 (5 years)
English teacher of kids between 6 and 12 years old. Also playing as a receptionist and administrative assistant.
Licenses & Certifications
Certificate of Proficiency in English - Cambridge University Press & Assessment (500/2429/2)
DELF B1 - France Éducation international (034003-201209J-1848632)
Honors & Awards
DistinciĂł de les PAU - Consell Interuniversitari de Catalunya (2014). Granted to those students that achieved a qualification of 9/10, or more, in the general phase of the University Access Tests (PAU).
MatrĂcula d’Honor en el Batxillerat - Institut Joan MirĂł (2014).