About

I work at the intersection of statistical multi-omics, precision medicine, and clinical data infrastructure. My work turns complex biomedical data into evidence systems that researchers, clinicians, and institutions can trust and use. My scientific background spans rare immune disease, infectious disease genomics, paediatric critical care, multi-omics, and probabilistic variant interpretation. I trained at University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Leeds, and EPFL, completing a PhD in Medicine and Genetics under Prof. Sinisa Savic before postdoctoral work with Prof. Jacques Fellay at EPFL and Prof. Luregn Schlapbach at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich. I lead the Quantitative Omics Epidemiology Group and have worked on national programmes including SwissPedHealth and the Swiss Pediatric Sepsis Study. I am founder and president of the Swiss Genomics Association and founder of Switzerland Omics.

Academic training and employment

2023–2026 Translational medicine at the University of Zurich and the Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology, Universitäts-Kinderspital Zürich, with Prof. Luregn Schlapbach, across clinical genomics, multi-omics, and paediatric critical care.
2018–2023 Postdoctoral research with Prof. Jacques Fellay at Global Health Institute, EPFL, working on the human genomics of infection and immunity.
2015–2019 PhD in Medicine at the School of Medicine and St. James’s University Hospital, University of Leeds, under Prof. Sinisa Savic, focused on rare immune disease discovery, genomic interpretation, and functional validation.
2014–2015 Postgrad in innate immunity, under Prof. Andrea Ablasser at EPFL.
2013–2014 MSc in Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, with first class honours.
2009–2013 BSc Biochemistry and Microbiology at University College Cork.

Selected awards

2023 Research prize, FKZ Children’s Research Centre 12th symposium, University of Zurich.
2018 Microsoft Azure Research Award, Data Science and ML in Predictive Genomics.
2017 Visitor research grant, Wellcome Genome Campus, University of Cambridge.
2015 110th Anniversary Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University of Leeds.
2015 LIBACS PhD Scholarship, University of Leeds.

Scientific products and public output

Switzerland Omics · QuantBayes Studio · Genomic Vault · Swiss Genomics Association · SwissPedHealth · Variant Impact · YouTube

Experience and collaborations

PHRT
SIB
SPHN
SwissPedHealth
Universität Zürich
Kinderspital Zürich
Vanderbilt University
Genomics England
Health 2030
EPFL
University of Leeds
Swiss Genomics Association
Switzerland Omics
University of South Florida
UCD
TCD
VentureLab