Pedro Madrigal

Pedro Madrigal is the Project Leader for RNA resources: RNAcentral – a comprehensive database of non-coding RNA sequences, and Rfam – a database of non-coding RNA families.

Previously, he was a Data Production Senior Bioinformatician at the Gene Expression Team, where he contributed to the Expression Atlas and Single-Cell Expression Atlas open science resources for gene and protein expression and localisation.

Pedro holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering, a master's degree in AI research, and a PhD in Bioinformatics from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland awarded in 2015 with the support of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. Before joining EMBL-EBI in 2021, he led computational data-driven research as a bioinformatician and computational biologist at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. He has developed new methods that utilise very large omics datasets to extract biological insights, and has worked closely with scientists to bring bioinformatics to complex biological problems.