Presenter

After his PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Birmingham in the UK, Alex Upton completed a Marie-Curie postdoctoral position at the University of Málaga, Spain. His research there involved extensive collaboration with local hospitals, in order to analyze clinical data using computationally intensive methods to identify biomarkers of interest. In 2016, Alex joined ETH Zurich Scientific IT Services in Switzerland, as a project manager. He joined the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 2019, where he currently works as a senior research project manager and is actively involved in a number of national and European initiatives.