Aleix Lafita
Associate Director
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAleix Lafita is an Associate Director in computational biology at GSK with 11 years' experience developing machine learning and biophysical methods to model protein sequence and structure for insights into function and disease. His work spans industry and academia—from protein crystallography and molecular dynamics to large-scale genomics and protein modelling—bridging hands-on simulations with production-ready predictive models. Trained at Cambridge and ETH Zurich, he led research on tandem domain repeats at EMBL-EBI and has moved deep computational methods into drug-discovery contexts at GSK. Colleagues describe him as a scientist-engineer who translates detailed structural intuition into scalable algorithms, often uncovering mechanistic signals that standard pipelines miss.
11 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Master’s Degree, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of CambridgeBachelor’s Degree, Biotechnology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biotechnology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Catalan, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (35)
visualization10
protein-sequences10
symmetry10
3d-structure10
sequence-alignment10
visualize10
java10
protein-data-bank10
pdb10
bioinformatics10
protein-structure10
genomics10
biojava10
classifier9
tandem8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rcsb/symmetry-benchmark
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
Benchmarks for testing the symmetry package
Contributions:66 commits, 14 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 2 months
testing
lafita/biojava
Mar 2015 - Apr 2020
BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java framework for processing biological data.
Contributions:4 PRs, 360 pushes, 59 branches in 5 years 2 months
biological-databiojavadedicatedopen-source-projectbiological
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