Christophe Dessimoz
Christophe Dessimoz | |
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Christophe Dessimoz speaking at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) / European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Basel, 2019 | |
| Born | Christophe Dessimoz 1980 (age 44–45) |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich (MSc, PhD) |
| Known for | Orthologous MAtrix (OMA) |
| Awards | Overton Prize (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics Genomics Phylogenetics Evolution Computational Biology |
| Institutions | University of Lausanne European Bioinformatics Institute University College London Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics |
| Thesis | Comparative Genomics Using Pairwise Evolutionary Distances (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gaston Gonnet |
| Website | lab |
Christophe Dessimoz is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor at the University of Lausanne, Associate Professor at University College London and a group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. He was awarded the Overton Prize in 2019 for his contributions to computational biology. Starting in April 2022, he will be joint executive director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, along with Ron Appel.