• Enrolled in the PhD Bioinformatics technical science program at the JKU, Linz, Austria
• Master degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (UMA, Málaga), September 2004
• B.Sc in Biology (UMA, Málaga), September 2002

• 2006-2011: fellow researcher, lecturer (Bioinformatics III: Structural Bioinformatics and Gene Analysis, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster and Special Topics on Bioinformatics, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster) and PhD candidate at Institute of Bioinformatics, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster, Johannes Kepler University Linz, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster
• 2004-2006: product manager junior at AlbetLabScience, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster
• 2000: Microbiology analyst at AGRICULTURAL DESUR, S.A.L

• Active leader of the ISCB-Student Council, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster
• Member of the organizing and fundraising committee of the ISCB-Student Council Symposium SCS5, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster
• Current President of RSG-Regional Student Group Morocco, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster

• Bionformatics.org, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster
• EMBnet- European Molecular Biology Network, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster
• RIB-Red Iberoamericana de Bioinformática, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster
• ISCB- International Society for Computational Biology, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster
• ISCB-Student Council, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster

• High-throughput experimental techniques (in general) and their application to understand and solve biomolecular mechanisms underlying biological phenomena
• Genome and gene expression data analysis. Feature selection on key genes, genetic patterns and markers for cancer-related diseases
• Microarray platforms curation (including SNPs and CNVs)

Microarray techniques typically generate many measurements of which only a small subset is informative for the interpretation of the experiment. Through different feature filtering techniques it is possible to select the relevant information from the large pool of noisy data. My work focuses on those informative genes. The goal is to find out the relation(s) between some features of the probes within an informative probe set, namely sequence composition, nucleotide use, physical location in the array and in the chromosomes (targeted position) and annotation.
The elimination of those probes which fail to detect a signal will help with designing microarrays containing only probes that work well or help to find better annotations.This elimination process also filters out those probes that are biologically irrelevant to the experiment.