About

I am a computational biologist currently working as a postdoct at the VIB in Leuven, Belgium. My research focuses on investigating the adaptation of the gut microbiome to different lifestyle of its host, on how this might imapct health

My Journey

July 2024: Postdoctoral researcher, VIB/KU Leuven

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Raes lab in VIB.

May 2023 - September 2024: Visiting Scholar, University of Trento

I worked as a visiting scholar at the Computational Metagenomics group under the supervision of Nicola Segata in Trento, Italy. My research focused on integrating large-scale metagenomic data at the subspecies level resolution to understand its association with human health and disease.

January 2020 - June 2024: PhD Studies, University Medical Center Groningen

Ph.D. in the Microbiome group at the University Medical Center Groningen under the supervision of Prof. Jingyuan Fu [Google Scholar] and Sasha Zhernakova [Google Scholar], I work closely with the Lifelines project, a three-generations population cohort from Northern Netherlands. By analyzing the gut microbiome, genetics, lifestyle, diet, immune parameters, and metabolism data from the cohort participants, I explore various research questions.

September 2018 - 2020: MSc Studies, University of Copenhagen

I pursued a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. During this two-year program, I honed my expertise in bioinformatics, statistics, and data science. My MSc work was part of the Bird 10,000 Genome project at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics under the supervision of Guojie Zhang (Google Scholar). Throughout my MSc studies, I also worked part-time as a bioinformatician at Evaxion Biotech and Rigshospitalet, Genomic Medicine.

September 2013 - 2018: BSc Studies, Technical University of Valencia

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology - Human and Biomedical biotechnology track - from the Technical University of Valencia. This is a 4-year program, in which I had the change to undergone two academic exchanges. First I went to Krakow (Poland), to Jagiellonian University (9 months). Later I moved to Beijing (China) in Tsinghua University (6 months). Once I finished my studies and before starting my MSc, I was an intern at JL Micol’s group.