Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford
FounderFounder at Lifebit Biotech
London, England, United Kingdom
FoundedLifebit Biotech
About
Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lifebit Biotech Ltd, a Techstars-backed company, and previously founded Innovation Forum Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Biomedicine, an MSc in Bioinformatics, and a BSc in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, with expertise in bioinformatics, medical informatics, and high performance computing. As a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, she developed tools for the analysis of biomedical data and contributed to the development team of Nextflow, a framework for computational analysis of genomic data.
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Experience
- Lifebit Biotech LtdChief Executive Officer & Foundercurrent2017 — presentCambridge, United Kingdom
- Innovation ForumFounder & Senior Advisor Innovation Forum Barcelona2017 — 2020
- Innovation ForumPresident of Innovation Forum Barcelona2016 — 2017Barcelona Area, Spain
- Innovation ForumVice President2015 — 2016Barcelona Area, Spain
- Innovation ForumMarketing Director2014 — 2015Barcelona Area, Spain
- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)Postdoctoral Researcher2016 — 2017Barcelona Area, Spain
- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)Bioinformatics Engineer - Doctoral Researcher2012 — 2016Barcelona Area, Spain
- SciLifeLabBioinformatics Engineer2010 — 2011Stockholm, Sweden
Skills & more
Public Speaking23Bioinformatics96Data Analysis80Research79Statistics39Molecular Biology46Science37Java24C++23Python23C20Perl19
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LinuxQualitative ResearchBiomedicineMarketing ManagementTeachingComputer ScienceMySQLLife SciencesPHPRMicrosoft OfficeAlgorithm DesignLanguages English · Greek · Spanish
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- Who is Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford?
- Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lifebit Biotech Ltd, a Techstars-backed company, and previously founded Innovation Forum Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Biomedicine, an MSc in Bioinformatics, and a BSc in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, with expertise in bioinformatics, medical informatics, and high performance computing. As a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, she developed tools for the analysis of biomedical data and contributed to the development team of Nextflow, a framework for computational analysis of genomic data.
- Where does Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford work?
- Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford is Founder of Lifebit Biotech.
- What companies did Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford found?
- Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford founded Lifebit Biotech.
- Where did Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford go to school?
- Dr. Maria Chatzou Dunford studied at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedicine); Hellenic Open University (Master of Business Administration (MBA)); Stockholm University (Msc in Bioinformatics / ML, Biology / Computer Science).
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