Summary
Carles Hernandez-ferrer is a Team Lead at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center with 11 years of experience at the intersection of software engineering, bioinformatics, and public health. He combines a PhD-level background in biomedicine and an MSc in bioinformatics with hands-on software roles at institutions like Harvard Medical School, CNAG-CRG, and Microsoft, enabling him to bridge research and production-grade systems. His work focuses on software development for health sciences, data analysis, and data management, and he has a parallel passion for teaching evidenced by instructor and academic appointments. Carles is comfortable leading teams that translate complex epidemiological and genomics data into reproducible software and analytical pipelines. He brings an uncommon blend of high-performance computing exposure and practical clinical research experience, often operating where computational scale meets domain-driven science. Based in Barcelona, he is equally at home mentoring students and deploying robust tools for large-scale health data challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Bioinformatics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, MSc Bioinformatics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biomedicine, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Catalan, English, Spanish, French