Liza Darrous
Senior Expert Data Science
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLiza Darrous is a Senior Expert in Data Science with eight years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of genetics, epidemiology and computational biology. She combines a PhD in Statistical Genetics with hands-on expertise in GWAS, Mendelian randomisation and whole-genome sequencing to translate large-scale genomic data into robust causal insights. Liza has built reproducible analytical pipelines and R packages (including work leading to lhcMR) and routinely partners with clinicians and external teams to operationalise complex analyses. Now based in Lausanne and working at Novartis, she brings a laboratory-born attention to data quality together with production-grade software practices. Colleagues describe her as an organised multitasker and clear communicator who thrives on open science and turning methodological innovation into applied research impact.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Al Dhafra Pvt SchoolsDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistical Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistical Genetics at University of Lausanne - UNILBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioinformatics at Lebanese American UniversityAntonine International School
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (12)
structural-equation-modeling8
equation7
gwas7
r-package7
genetics7
machine-learning6
modeling4
slurm2
version-control2
reproducible-research1
reproducible-science1
r1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LizaDarrous/LHC-MR
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:50 commits, 41 pushes in 1 year 10 months
LizaDarrous/lhcMR
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
lhcMR
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
machine-learning
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