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Christophe Dessimoz is a Professor at the University of Lausanne's Department of Ecology and Evolution, affiliated with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). He holds a joint appointment with University College London (UCL), where part of his lab remains active. His academic journey includes a Master's in Biology (ETH Zurich, 2003) and a PhD in Computer Science (ETH Zurich, 2009). He has held roles at ETH Zurich, EMBL-EBI, and UCL before joining the Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG) as a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor in 2015.
His research bridges computational methods and evolutionary biology, focusing on gene and genome evolution, orthology inference, and phylogenetic analysis. Key projects include the Quest for Orthologs consortium and the OMA database. He has developed tools like OMA Standalone, ALF, and Matreex, which aid in genomic analysis and visualization.
His work has been recognized with awards such as the SIB Young Bioinformatician Award (2012), Google Faculty Award (2015), and EMBO Young Investigator (2016) status. His lab collaborates across disciplines, addressing questions like the conservation of membrane proteins and the evolutionary origins of eukaryotes. Ongoing projects explore AI ethics in life sciences and federated data querying for biomedical research.
Publications highlight advancements in orthology benchmarking, phylogenetic tree inference, and applications of genomic data to medicine and evolutionary biology. His team includes PhD students, postdocs, and visiting researchers, fostering a collaborative environment for computational and experimental work.
