Aitana Neves
Associate Director, Clinical Bioinformatics
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAitana Neves is an Associate Director in Clinical Bioinformatics with 10 years of experience building and leading cross-disciplinary teams to translate genomics and imaging analytics into clinical practice. Based in Lausanne, she has driven national initiatives—coordinating Swiss-wide working groups, designing EQAs for NGS-based bacterial and viral typing, and helping launch the Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform—bridging clinicians, hospitals and industry. Her background spans hands-on computational biology and machine-learning applications from EPFL research to R&D collaborations with SMEs, and she has a track record of securing funding for translational projects. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in life sciences and an executive diploma in project management, she excels at turning complex bioinformatics pipelines into operational, quality-assured services. Notably, she led an Innosuisse ML project integrating image analytics into cancer diagnostics, reflecting a blend of technical depth and practical clinical impact.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Life Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Life Sciences at University of LausanneMaster's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDiploma of Advanced Studies, Project Management, Diploma of Advanced Studies, Project Management at Geneva School of Economics and Management - HEC Executive - University of Geneva
French, English, Spanish, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-europe/rdmkit
May 2022 - Jun 2022
ELIXIR Data Management Toolkit - Find the answers to your research data management questions here.
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 comments in 1 month
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alebrand/BBC
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
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