Alfonso Valencia

ICREA research Professor, Director of the Life Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB/ELIXIR-ES) and coordinator of the data pillar of the Spanish Personalised Medicine intiative, IMPaCT. His research interest is the development of computational biology methods and their application to biomedical problems. Some of the computational methods he has developed are considered pioneering work in areas such as biological text mining, protein coevolution, disease networks and modelling cellular systems (digital twins). He participates in some of the key international consortia working in cancer research. In terms of community services, he is one of the initial promoters of the ELIXIR infrastructure, founder of the Spanish and International Bioinformatics networks and former president of ISCB, the international professional association of bioinformaticians. He is executive editor of the main journal in the field, Bioinformatics.