Alex Sanchez
Full Professor (Catedratico De Universidad)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolAlex Sanchez is a Full Professor based in Barcelona with over three decades of academic and applied experience in statistics, bioinformatics, and biomedicine, and ten years explicitly noted in hands-on roles. He has led and built statistics and bioinformatics units, coordinated master's programs, and prefers teaching mature graduate students in subjects like statistical inference, genomic/proteomic analysis, and experimental design. His career blends sustained university teaching (from secondary education to PhD-level supervision) with long-term collaborative research and consulting in biomedical data science. Alex has managed data science platforms and steered unit-level strategy at a major research institute, evidencing both leadership and operational experience in translational research settings. Trained with a PhD in Biology (Statistics) and an MSc in Bioinformatics from Manchester, he brings deep methodological rigor paired with practical bioinformatics implementation. A notable but less obvious strength is his dedication to student mentorship across institutions, reflecting a persistent commitment to education alongside research impact.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Bioinformatics, Master of Sc., Bioinformatics, Master of Sc. at Manchester UniversityDr (PhD), Biologia (EstadÃstica), Dr (PhD), Biologia (EstadÃstica) at Universitat de Barcelona
English, French, German
Github Skills (11)
r-package10
bioconductor9
rna-seq9
data-analysis8
genes4
scatter-plot3
shiny2
ontology1
statistics1
go1
statistical-inference1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uebvhir/Pathway_Analysis-Guidelines
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
alexsanchezpla/StatisticalAnalysisOfMicroarrayData
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes in 11 months
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