Diego Oyarzún

Diego is originally from Valdivia in southern Chile. He is currently Reader in Computational Biology at the University of Edinburgh, with a joint appointment between the School of Informatics and the School of Biological Sciences. Diego was a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

He obtained a BSc and MSc in Control Theory and Electronic Engineering from U Santa María in Valparaiso, Chile, and a PhD from the Hamilton Institute, Ireland. He was a Research Fellow in Biomathematics at Imperial College London (2013-2018). He is part of programme committees of several international conferences and referee for 30+ scientific journals and various funding bodies. He has a number of roles:

• Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical AI.
• Director for the Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship (XDF) at the Institute for Genetics and Cancer.
• Co-founder of the Science for Sustainability Hub at the University of Edinburgh.
• Edinburgh representative for NAIXUS, a UNESCO-sponsored global network of AI Centres of Excellence.
• Associate Editor for Microbial Cell Factories and Frontiers in Synthetic Biology.