#SRDD2018 Speakers

Speaker

Full name

Alex Upton

Affiliation

Community Project Manager, Scientific IT Services, ETH Zurich

Biography

After his doctorate in bioinformatics at the University of Birmingham, Alex completed a postdoctoral position at the Bitlab group at the University of Malaga. His research there involved extensive collaboration with local hospitals to analyse clinical data using computationally intensive methods to identify potential biomarkers of interest. In addition, he was involved in the proposal development and co-ordination of the training areas of the H2020 project Elixir EXCELERATE. He joined ETH Scientific IT Services in 2016 as Community Project Manager, and is involved in the Swiss national projects EnhanceR (www.EnhanceR.ch), and DLCM (www.DLCM.ch).

Session

EnhanceR and DLCM – Solving Data Challenges for Swiss Researchers - Room D1.2