Christophe Dessimoz | |
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![]() Christophe Dessimoz speaking at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) / European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Basel, 2019 | |
Born | Christophe Dessimoz 1980 (age 43–44) |
Alma mater | ETH Zurich (MSc, PhD) |
Known for | Orthologous MAtrix (OMA)[4] |
Awards | Overton Prize (2019)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Bioinformatics Genomics Phylogenetics Evolution Computational Biology[2] |
Institutions | University of Lausanne European Bioinformatics Institute University College London Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics |
Thesis | Comparative Genomics Using Pairwise Evolutionary Distances (2009) |
Doctoral advisor | Gaston Gonnet[3] |
Website | lab |
Christophe Dessimoz is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor at the University of Lausanne, Associate Professor at University College London and a group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.[5][2][6][7][8] He was awarded the Overton Prize in 2019 for his contributions to computational biology.[1] Starting in April 2022, he will be joint executive director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, along with Ron Appel.
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