CV
Positions
2024 – present
Severo Ochoa Postdoctoral Researcher (Data Science area)IATA-CSIC, Paterna (Valencia), Spain — Yeastomics laboratory, Food Biotechnology Department
2020 – 2024
Torres Quevedo Postdoctoral Researcher · Founder and head of the Bioinformatics UnitValGenetics S.L., Valencia, Spain — Nanopore sequencing, plant pathogen diagnostics, varietal identification, bioinformatics services for the agri-food sector (Nov 2020 – Jan 2024)
2018 – 2020
Bioinformatics ResearcherIATA-CSIC, Paterna (Valencia) — Genomics of infective Saccharomyces strains
2016 – 2020
PhD contractUniversitat de València, Valencia — Departament de Genètica
Education
2020
PhD in Biotechnology and BiomedicineUniversitat de València (Department of Genetics) / IATA-CSIC
2015
MSc in BioinformaticsUniversitat de València
2013
Licenciatura (5-year BSc equivalent) in BiologyUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela
Research interests
- Yeast comparative and population genomics; structural variation, aneuploidy and hybridisation
- Mitochondrial genome dynamics and heteroplasmy in yeast hybrids
- Long-read sequencing (Oxford Nanopore, PacBio): genome assembly, annotation and pangenomics
- Microbial communities in fermented foods (16S / ITS amplicon metataxonomics)
- Applied genomics for food, wine and agricultural biotechnology
Skills
- Sequencing: Oxford Nanopore and PacBio library preparation and data analysis; high-molecular-weight DNA extraction
- Bioinformatics: genome assembly, variant calling and annotation, structural variant detection, pangenome analysis, RNA-seq, amplicon pipelines
- Programming: R, Python, Bash; Linux servers and HPC environments
- Languages: Spanish (native),French (native), English
Technology transfer
- Technological support contracts with industry and international institutions (Nanopore sequencing and bioinformatics consultancy), e.g. AITEX (Spain) and HES-SO Changins (Switzerland)
- Three years leading bioinformatics services in a biotech SME (ValGenetics S.L.)
Teaching and mentoring
- Bioinformatics teaching in biotechnology master's programmes, Universitat de València
- Supervised 9 MSc Bioinformatics students from the master's programme in Bioinformatics, Universitat de València
- Applied Sequencing and Bioinformatics teaching in Erasmus Mundus master's programmes in Plant Health, Universitat Politècnica de València
Service
- Member of Spanish Society of Bioinformatics — SEBiBC
- Member of CSIC Bioinformatcis Conection — Conexión BCB, Excellence Committee
- Peer review for journals: Microbial Genomics, FEMS Yeast Research, Scientific Reports, Food Microbiology, Journal of Molecular Evolution...