Thanks to a wonderful high school teacher, I have been interested in Biology since I was a teenager. Following this enthusiasm, in 2014 I decided to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Because I have always been a computer nerd, I was delighted when I “discovered” the field of Bioinformatics. It motivated me to start programming on my own, implementing algorithms from scratch or toying with data visualization methods. After my Bachelor’s internship in a Computational Biology group, I enrolled in a two years Master in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences. For my Master’s internship, I had the pleasure to work in Patrick Aloy’s group developing the Chemical Checker, a chemoinformatics resource of bioactivity signatures for small molecules. Specifically, my Master’s thesis focused on the inference of bioactivity signatures for uncharacterized compounds and the automated generation of novel molecules optimized by a target bioactivity signature. This project allowed me to learn about the state of the art in deep learning algorithms and spurred me to learn more about the modeling of biological data. In September 2020 I started pursuing my PhD here in the Saez group.

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