Samantha López
Doctoral Researcher
Keywords: biology; biostatistics; bioinformatics; cognitive neuroscienc
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Samantha López studied her BSc in Biology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and her MSc in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the University of Barcelona and the Open University of Catalonia.
During her MSc, she collaborated as a data scientist with the Mathematical Biology Group of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (Bellaterra) and the Plant and Animal Genomics Group in the Center for Agrigenomics Research (Bellaterra).
For her MSc final thesis, she has developed a bioinformatics tool to identify potential target sequences in viral RNAs for the CRISPR/Cas13a system’s diagnosis application ‘SHERLOCK’.
She is a founder of the biotech startup ‘RheoDx’ focused on hemathology diagnostics using rheology, where she worked for 2 years as Scientific Director.
She is currently carrying out research as a PhD Candidate in the Artsoundscapes Project, within the Cognitive Neuroscience Department of the Faculty of Psychology of Universitat de Barcelona, and under the supervision of Prof. Carles Escera Mico and Prof. Margarita Díaz-Andreu.