Summary
Liz Villabona-arenas is a biologist and bioinformatics specialist with nine years of experience focused on viruses, evolutionary biology, and phylogenetics. She combines academic training from Wageningen University, Imperial College London, and LSHTM with practical modeling expertise in infectious disease dynamics. Her work spans computational approaches to pathogen evolution and applied projects such as identifying prostate cancer-specific nanobodies during an ENPICOM internship. Based in Wageningen, she bridges field-relevant epidemiological insight with hands-on bioinformatics analysis. Known for clear interdisciplinary collaboration, she brings both quantitative modeling and wet-lab aware perspective to viral phylogeny problems.
9 years of coding experience
Mathematical Models of the Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Mathematical Models of the Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology at Imperial College London
Disease Outbreaks in Low and Middle Income Countries, Disease Outbreaks in Low and Middle Income Countries at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London
Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics at Wageningen University & Research
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at Universidad Industrial de Santander
Clinic on Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data (MMED 2021), Clinic on Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data (MMED 2021) at Stellenbosch University
English, Spanish, French