About me

Hi, I’m Ricardo, a Computational Genomics Scientist in the Pathogen Program at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford. I work across genomics, deep learning and experimental biology.

Previously, I worked with Chris Quince at the Earlham Institute on AI and mathematical models of microbiomes and metabolism. My PhD at the University of Edinburgh combined active learning, metabolomics and robotics to develop a prototype automated biochemist. This work was done under the supervision of Karl Burgess and Diego Oyarzún.

I’m from Villa Alemana, Chile, and studied Environmental Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. My earlier work explored bacterial genome mining and natural products.