Andrea Alvarez

Tagline:PhD student at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Boadilla del Monte, España

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About

PhD student at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), currently at the Center of Biomedical Technology (CTB) - Medical Data Analytics Laboratory (MEDAL). Student at the program in Software, Systems and Computing (ETSIINF - UPM). Research line in disease understanding and drug repurposing by data-driven methodologies. BSc in Biotechnology and MSc in Computational Biology applied to Biosciences, covering aspects of synthetic biology, genomics and development of biomedical ontologies. Experience in both biology and informatics areas. Specially interested in Semantic Web, Network Medicine and Biomedical Informatics.

Education

  • PhD in Sofware, Systems and Computing

    from: 2022, until: present

    School:Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  • Computational Biology Master

    from: 2021, until: 2022

    School:Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  • Biotechnology Degree

    from: 2017, until: 2021

    School:Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  • Baccalaureate

    from: 2015, until: 2017

    Field of study:Science and TechnologySchool:Eurocolegio Casvi

Work Experiences

  • PHD Student

    from: 2022, until: present

    Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridLocation:Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

  • Bioinformatician

    from: 2021, until: 2022

    Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridLocation:Pozuelo de Alarcón, Comunidad de Madrid, España

    Description:

    Centro de Tecnología Biométdica (CTB) - Medical Data Analytics Laboratory (MEDAL)
    Provide a semantic structure to a relational database based on Human Disease Networks for drug repurposing approaches. Creation of semantic resource based on biomedical knowledge. Biomedical ontology design and implementation.

  • Bioinformatician

    from: 2020, until: 2021

    Organization:Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de PlantasLocation:Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España

    Description:

    Bioinformatic pipeline for the treatment of RNAseq sequence data.
    Open source programs (bbtools, trinity, diamond…) and programming in Python, R and Linux shell script

  • Academic Tutor

    from: 2018, until: 2021

    Organization:Academia DelfisLocation:Boadilla del Monte, Community of Madrid, Spain

    Description:

    Tutor in both private and group classes to highschool students

  • English Teacher

    from: 2017, until: 2018

    Organization:Ayuntamiento de boadilla del monteLocation:Boadilla del Monte, Community of Madrid, Spain

    Description:

    English courses for seniors (65 plus) at the Public Senior Center in Boadilla del Monte