Celia Blanco
Ramón Y Cajal Fellow at UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolCelia Blanco is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow and theoretical physicist with 10 years of interdisciplinary research experience at the interface of astrobiology, bioengineering, and computational biology. She combines rigorous mathematical modeling and simulations of chemical and biological systems with practical pipelines for processing and analyzing high-throughput sequencing from directed evolution and in vitro selection experiments. Her work spans academic appointments at CAB (CSIC-INTA), UCLA, UC Santa Barbara and an investigator role at Blue Marble, where she has modeled protocell permeability, peptide–RNA interactions, phage–bacteria dynamics, and protein aggregation. Fluent in translating theory into data-driven experiments, she leverages computational skills to address origin-of-life questions and actionable problems in biotechnology and phage therapy. An often-overlooked strength is her track record of developing end-to-end analysis pipelines that bridge bioinformatics and experimental design, enabling faster iteration between modeling and lab validation.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Student Course 2007/2008, Erasmus Student Course 2007/2008 at Université libre de BruxellesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Cum Laude at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spanish, English, French, Italian, mandarin chinese (hsk1)
Github Skills (3)
sequencing8
python4
bioinformatics4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
celiablanco/EasyDiverPlus
Aug 2024 - Apr 2026
Bioinformatics pipeline to process and analyze sequencing data from in vitro selection experiments. It can be used for nucleic acids or amino acids data.
Contributions:5 releases, 11 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 8 months
bioinformaticssequencing
ichen-lab-ucsb/SCAPE-BYO
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 64 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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