Relevant Professional and Scientific Experience

• Sep 2011 - Present : Postdoctoral researcher at the Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics group of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona, Spain), with Prof. Modesto Orozco
• Oct 2006 - Aug 2011 : Postdoctoral researcher at the Design of Biological Systems Group of the Center for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona, Spain), with Prof. Luis Serrano 
• Other Dec 09 - Aug 11
  
• Emergence project Oct 08 - Nov 09
  
• CRG-Novartis fellowship Oct 06 - Sep 08
  
• Sep 2005 - Sep 2006 : Bioinformatician at the Bioinformatics Unit of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (Madrid, Spain), with Dr. Díaz-Uriarte.
• Apr 2004 - Aug 2005 : Research Associate at The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, CA, USA), with Dr. Adam Godzik
• Apr 2003 - Jun 2003 : Volunteer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego (La Jolla, CA, USA) with Dr. Phil Bourne.
• Jan 2002 - Dec 2002 : Programmer in a company in Barcelona, Spain
• Oct 1999 - Dec 2001 : Webmaster at the Divisió de Ciències Experimentals i Matemàtiques of the Universitat de Barcelona

Education

• 1997-2001 - Ph.D. (cum laude) in Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Advisors: Ramon Canal and Javier Labay. Thesis title: Galactic Chemical Evolution and the Problem of Light Elements (available, upon request)
• 1993-1997 - B.S. in Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Other

2009 - "Team Leadership & Management Skills Training" PRBB Intervals course by HFP Consulting
• 2004 - "Data Mining I: Basic Methods and Techniques" University of California San Diego Extension
  

• mycoplasma: Mycoplasma pneumoniae database (in preparation)
• ZnFX: In silico design of Zinc Finger proteins and nucleases (in preparation)
• IDconverter: Conversion of gene/clone/protein identifiers.
• IDClight: Light version of IDconverter
• PaLS: Pathway and Literature Strainer
• Asterias: Suite for the analysis of genomic data
• preP: Preprocessing tools for microarray data

• 2010 Systems Biology: Bridging the Gap between Disciplines (Barcelona, Spain). Talk: Pax6 as an example of the use of protein design algorithms to understand the molecular basis of disease. slides
• 2010 First CRG Postdoc Symposium. Poster: Using protein design algorithms to understand the molecular basis of disease: the Pax6 example.
  
• 2009 The DNA-Proteome: recent advances towards establishing the protein-DNA interaction space (Barcelona, Spain). Posters: Structure-based prediction of protein-DNA binding specificities and Structure-based DNA binding prediction and design.
  
• 2006 7th Spanish Symposium on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Zaragoza, Spain). Posters: PaLS: Pathway and Literature Strainer and Asterias: a parallelized web-based suite for the analysis of gene expression and aCGH data
• 2005 4th European Conference on Computational Biology (Madrid, Spain). Poster: Network Analysis of Proteins: Thermostability and Compactness
• 2005 Modeling of Protein Interactions in Genomes (Lawrence, Kansas, USA). Poster: Network Analysis of Proteins: Thermostability and Compactness
• 2004 Jornades de Bioinformàtica (Barcelona, Spain).
  
  
• 2000 Cosmic Evolution conference (Paris, France). Poster: Galactic chemical evolution and the abundances of lithium, beryllium and boron
• 1999 The Light Elements and their Evolution conference (Natal, Brazil). Poster: Light Element Evolution at the Solar Neighborhood
• 1998 LiBeB, Cosmic Rays, and Related X- and Gamma-Rays conference (Paris, France). Talk: Light Element Evolution in the Galactic Halo

• Languages: Python, Java, Visual Basic, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, C, C#, Fortran, Perl, PHP, HTML, SQL
• Operating Systems:  Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat), Microsoft Windows, Unix, Mac OSX
• Database experience: MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle
• Apache 1.3 and 2.0

• 2010-12 Protein Homology Modeling course. Masters in Biophysics, University of Barcelona
• 1998-99 Physics. Semester zero. School of Physics, University of Barcelona

• Reviewer of PLoS ONE, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Bioinformatics and Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences