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 (52)
blast10
sequence-analysis10
dedicated10
protein-sequences10
symmetry10
bam10
structural-biology10
3d-structure10
sequence-alignment10
java10
protein-data-bank10
pdb-files10
pdb10
bioinformatics10
protein-structure10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lafita/motif-search
Feb 2017 - Sep 2021
Search protein structural motifs in the PDB.
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
autoencoderpdbmotifspdb-filesstructural-biology
biojava/logo
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
javabiojavalogginghost
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