PhD in Biomedicine

Universitat de Barcelona

Barcelona, ES

Jan 2017 - Jul 2012

• Virtual Screening for novel MoA: Apps. and method developments
• Development and application of structure-based drug discovery methods
• Awards: Extraordinary prize for PhD Thesis and Ramon Margalef award for best publication

MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Barcelona, ES

Jun 2012 - Sep 2010

• Expanding Druggable Genome: PP-Interfaces as a new target class
• Study of novel rational approach to find PP interfacial binders

BSc in Biotechnology

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Barcelona, ES

Jun 2010 - Sep 2006

Data Analyst

Center for Child Health Analytics
Luzerner Kantonsspital

Luzern, CH

Present - Mar 2025

• I turn clinical data into actionable insights to support evidence-based decisions. Experienced in extracting Epic EMR records using SQL and analyzing and visualizing data with R and Power BI, I help drive better healthcare outcomes.

Clinical Data Analyst

Centre for Health Analytics
Royal Children’s Hospital

Melbourne, AUS

Feb 2025 - Oct 2022

Senior Research Officer and Bioinformatician

Inouye Lab
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

Melbourne, AUS

Oct 2022 - Jan 2019

• I worked in the intersection between Structural Biology and Genomics, trying to understand how rare missense variants alter protein structures and can induce disease

Postdoctoral Researcher

Barril Lab, Universitat de Barcelona

Barcelona, ES

Dec 2019 - Jan 2017

• After finishing my PhD, I worked in exciting collaborative projects in the field of epigenetics and cancer, where I carried out multidisciplinary research and learned new experimental skills

Computational Tools

Data visualization, Data analysis, Dashboards (Power BI, R Shiny), CI/CD, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, REDCap, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery

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Programming

R, Python, SQL, Perl, C++, LaTeX, Bash, Java, HTML/CSS and Android and Web Development

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Management Skills

2021 EMBO Practical Course: Research to service: Planning and running a bioinformatics core facility; Mental Health and OHS certifications

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Certifications

Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA), UX/UI Design (RMIT), Dataviz with R (IBM), Machine Learning (IBM)

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Australasian Leadership Computing Grants

Story about NCI Computing Grant

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Sep 2021 - Sep 2020

• Together with Mike Inouye, we were awarded a 1 year computing grant by the Australian National Computational Infrastructure to study COVID-19 proteins and possible drug treatments

New tools for new medicines, The Conversation article

Lay-summary of some of my work and opinion for The Conversation Spain

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Sep 2021

Shiny App development

Related to a project we published in the Journal Circulation

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Apr 2021

COVID-19 daily dashboard, until Nov 2020

Personal project to showcase COVID-19 evolution in Victoria during major lockdown in 2020

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Dec 2020

COVID-19 thromboembolism is reduced in ambulatory, but not hospitalized patients, following COVID-19 vaccination

Hematologica
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Nov 2023

• Hannah Stevens *, Sergio Ruiz-Carmona *, Karlheinz Peter and James D McFadyen

Oxygen Pathway Limitations in Patients with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

Circulation
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Apr 2021

• Erin J Howden *, Sergio Ruiz-Carmona *, […] Andre La Gerche, Marion Delcroix and Guido Claessen
• Result of a Bioinformatics Core collaboration. Shiny app developed

Dynamic undocking and the quasi-bound state as tools for drug discovery

Nature Chemistry
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Jan 2017

• Sergio Ruiz-Carmona, Peter Schmidtke, […] Rod Hubbard and Xavier Barril
• Highlighted in its issue cover

rDock: a fast, versatile and open source program for docking ligands to proteins and nucleic acids

PLoS Computational Biology
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Sep 2014

• Sergio Ruiz-Carmona, Daniel Alvarez-Garcia, […] Xavier Barril, Rod Hubbard and S David Morley