Alejandro Vignoni
Director at iGEM Competition
Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolAlejandro Vignoni is a Director and Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València who blends control engineering, machine learning, and synthetic biology to translate academic research into market-ready startups. With a PhD in Control Engineering and over a decade of interdisciplinary research and postdoctoral experience at institutions like Imperial College, Rice University and the Max Planck Institutes, he leads UPV’s IDEAS incubator and heads the Synthetic Biology and Biosystems Control Lab. He focuses on applying rigorous control principles to design predictable, sustainable biological systems with applications from nutraceuticals to cancer therapies. As Chair of the iGEM Engineering Committee and long-time mentor, judge and advisor, he champions standards, measurement practices and engineering education across the global synthetic biology community. Hands-on in both management and lab work, he combines academic rigor with entrepreneurial drive and an unusual background spanning LLRF control at Fermilab to industrial knowledge management early in his career. Outside the lab he’s an avid cyclist, photographer and lifelong guitarist, reflecting a creative streak that feeds his interdisciplinary problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero en Eletrónica, Ingenieria, Ingeniero en Eletrónica, Ingenieria at Universidad Nacional de La PlataUniversitat Politècnica de València
English, Italian, Catalan, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
genomics8
bioinformatics8
semantics7
owl7
semantic-web6
sparql6
linked-data6
framebuffer5
rdf5
ffmpeg3
stream3
dm3
ssh2
materials-informatics2
simulations2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iGEM-Measurement-Tools/Modeling-Tutorials
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
sb2cl/MD
Feb 2022 - Jul 2023
MD simulations of lipid bilayers and photosensible molecules
Contributions:4 PRs, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
md-simulationsmoleculessimulationssimulationlipid
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