Speaker Bio
Alba Jené is the Scientific Coordinator of the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She obtained her PhD in Biomedicine from University Pompeu Fabra in 2013, specialised in bioinformatics (MSc) and human genomics, and moved after towards research management in the private sector, working on FP7, H2020, IMI and IMI2 projects in the medical informatics and bioinformatics fields, and coordinating all aspects from proposal preparation, technical and financial tasks. She joined the BSC in 2018, where she has since promoted strategic synergies with external stakeholders in the biomedical sector, including local hospitals, in the framework of research collaborations in the area of computational solutions for Personalised Medicine. She is also fully committed to the promotion of gender equality in science from the Bioinfo4Women programme at the BSC.