Patricia Carvajal Lopez

Patricia is a Scientific Training Officer in EMBL-EBI's Training team. She works on development and delivery of on-site courses and participates in several communities of practice, some which involve analysing the current status of bioinformatics education in Latin America and bringing the Train the Trainer courses to the Spanish and Portuguese languages.

Before joining EMBL-EBI, she was a CABANA secondee within the Training team. Her project was aimed at developing undergraduate teaching resources for life science students and educators, focusing on the needs of Latin America and on analysing the current status of formal bioinformatics education in the region.

Patricia previously earned her PhD in Natural Resources and Biotechnology from CIBNOR (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C.) in México.