Inês Mendes
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolInês Mendes is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with a decade of experience applying emerging sequencing technologies and cloud-native workflows to microbial genomics and public health. She holds a PhD summa cum laude from the University of Lisbon and has driven reproducible, scalable methods for metagenomics, antimicrobial resistance characterization and genome assembly. As a long-standing member of the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, she has published on data standards and interoperability, bridging lab practice with repository submission and reporting pipelines. At Theiagen Genomics she translates cutting-edge methods into operational bioinformatics solutions for surveillance, drawing on hands-on experience teaching data science and leading student success programs. Her background uniquely combines deep academic research in phylogenetics with practical deployment of cloud-enabled pipelines that accelerate public health decisions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de LisboaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Summa Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Summa Cum Laude at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de LisboaData Science Starters Academy, Data Science, Data Science Starters Academy, Data Science at Lisbon Data Science AcademyLicentiate degree, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Licentiate degree, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (156)
package-management10
structural-variation10
immunology10
genomics10
bacteria10
composer10
singularity10
ncbi10
nextflow10
component-based10
genome10
conda10
pairwise10
sequencing10
pathogen10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cimendes/proCompare
Jun 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 11 months
B-UMMI/LMAS.js
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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