SIB announces the departure of Christine Durinx, its Joint Executive Director, at end of March 2022, after eight years at the institute. Christophe Dessimoz, Associate Professor at the Department of Computational Biology at UNIL and SIB group leader and a professor at University College London, has been appointed by the Foundation Council and the Board of Directors as her successor. As of 1 April 2022, he will be taking over as Joint Executive Director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, alongside Ron Appel.
SIB Foundation Council has ratified the nomination of Christophe Dessimoz by the Board of Directors as new Joint Executive Director of SIB as of 1 April 2022.
Christophe Dessimoz is an internationally recognized scientist based at the University of Lausanne as Associate Professor at the Department of Computational Biology and SIB Group Leader. He obtained a Master’s in Biology in 2003, a PhD in Computer Science in 2009 at ETH Zurich followed by a postdoc and position as senior research associate. He then worked as a visiting scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge (UK). He has been an elected member of the SIB Board of Directors since 2018 and a professor at University College London since 2020.
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