Our team

Co-founder & CEO

Adam is a bioinformatics researcher, software engineer and early stage biotech investor. His research focuses on using machine learning and transcriptomics to predict response status to cancer drugs in preclinical and clinical trials.

As the CEO of BioMage, Adam secured over $0.5m revenue from top-tier research institutions, and over $1.4m venture capital funding. A notable company in his portfolio is 64xbio. He is also a scout at Backed.vc.

Co-founder & CTO

Iva has years of experience working as an engineer in the software industry, mainly in fast-paced startup environments. Previously worked as an engineer at Skyscanner. One of the main developers of the company’s continuous deployment platform, deploying hundreds of core Skyscanner website microservices to AWS per day.

Iva graduated from the University of Glasgow, with a first class MSci in Computing Science. Both of her BSc and MSci dissertations were in the field of algorithms and constraint programming.

Iva is currently leading the engineering efforts at Biomage.

Co-founder & CSO

Vicky is an immunologist by training and joined Biomage after a successful academic career. Vicky completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh and postdoctoral positions in Dundee and Helsinki. In 2015, she was awarded a prestigious career development fellowship to become a group leader in Immunology at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests focussed on the roles of adhesion molecules in promoting immune activation and regulation, with publications in Nature Immunology, Nature Communications and PNAS.

She has direct experience in single cell RNA-seq data handling (read more here) and is excited to be Product Manager for the Biomage-hosted community instance of Cellenics®.

Scientific co-founder

Peter is an internationally renowned Professor of Bioinformatics and a world-wide leader in the field of data analytics. Previously, Peter received a PhD in biophysics at Harvard University and completed his postdoctoral fellowship and Associate Professorship in computational biology and genomics. Peter’s lab is now situated at Altos Labs, a new biotechnology company dedicated to unraveling the deep biology of cellular rejuvenation programming.

Principal Engineer

Pol is a computer scientist with many different interests. He has worked both in research,  doing mobile robotics, ML and supercomputing, and in the private sector, where he led a small team in a fintech company to improve people’s pensions. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in computer & data science and, wanting to learn more, he co-created the Barcelona ACM chapter and the Papers We Love meet-up to organize tech talks and discussions. His main interests are AI, space and human development. He joined Biomage because it is the perfect balance between applied research, the fast-paced environment of a startup and the pleasure of contributing to improve human health.

Software Engineer

Martin is a Software Engineer with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He is currently working on his thesis for a Master's in Computer Science, focused on methods for improving Fog Computing in an environment where many of the edge devices that compose the network are unreliable.

Before joining Biomage, he worked as a Software Engineer in Amalgama Argentina handling many different projects and went on two internships at Microsoft Seattle with teams in the area of Microsoft Office.

Martin is very excited about joining the efforts to build a high quality platform for single cell analytics.

Bioinformatician

Oliver recently completed his seven year degree in Biology with Bioinformatics specialisation, and is also six months away from finishing his BSc in Data Science at the University of Buenos Aires.

He has worked as a programmer for the past three years in various projects, from freelance full stack Web Development to working on a navigation application used by dozens of cargo ships. Being really passionate about science, he has also taken part in research projects in Molecular Biology and Biophysics in two different institutions in Argentina.

Oliver is very excited to be part of the Biomage team and developing a platform to facilitate single cell data analysis to researchers all over the world.

Bioinformatician

Germán is a Phd student at the University of Buenos Aires, specializing in Systems Biology & Bioinformatics. He’s also enrolled on an MSc in Data Science and has experience building tools to help colleagues analyze their single-cell fluorescence microscopy data.

His main interest lies in the application of different techniques, ranging from single-cell fluorescence microscopy and sequencing to mathematical modelling and data science to try and understand how cells make decisions, and the reasons that lead genetically identical cells to make different ones.

scRNA-seq is a perfect tool to approach these questions, which is part of the reason Germán is really excited to be part of the bioinformatics team at Biomage, developing tools to help biologists answer these fundamental questions.

Bioinformatician

Sara graduated with an MSci in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. She started working as a bioinformatician during her thesis internship, focusing on the deconvolution of gene expression profiles. She has worked as a bioinformatician in a Clinical Genomics laboratory for the past 4 years handling the analysis of NGS data for diagnosis purposes.

Sara is about to complete her PhD, during which she worked on projects involving bulk RNA-seq and single cell multiomics data. Her research interest focused on computational methods for risk stratification of myelofibrosis patients.

Sara is persuaded that bioinformatics has great potential to help solve real-world problems and to improve human health. For this reason, she is thrilled to be part of the Biomage team.

Junior Software Engineer

Stefan is a software engineer, he has a Computing BSc degree at Glasgow Caledonian University, Cisco - CCNA routing and switching degree and an associate network engineer diploma. Before he joined Biomage he did two internships at Skyscanner and GTT, as well as working as a freelancer on IoT, front and back end web development and computer network projects.

Other projects he did were designing fully automated orchestration and containerized platform following the DevOps ideology; and a belt equipped with distance sensors and vibration alerts, powered by Raspberry Pi to help visually impaired people navigate their surroundings.

He is keen on working on improving human health and sees a great opportunity in making the researcher journey easier.

Bioinformatics Consultant

Sebastian is a bioinformatician specialising in high throughput sequence analysis and machine learning. He graduated at University of Jena in Germany and received a PhD in bioinformatics at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology. Before joining Biomage, Sebastian spend 8 years as postdoc at University of Cambridge focusing on plants, epigenetics, small RNAs and single-cell sequencing. He has been working as a consultant for various biotech companies and contributed to several open source software projects. Along his scientific journey, he recognised the need for better platforms enabling researchers especially for single cell data analysis which he is excited to achieve as part of Biomage.