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Pedro Mendes (scientist)

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Pedro Mendes
Born
Pedro Pedrosa Mendes
NationalityPortuguese
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisComputer simulation of the dynamics of biochemical pathways (1994)
Doctoral advisorDouglas Kell
Website

Pedro Pedrosa Mendes is a professor of computational systems biology in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB), the Machine Learning and Optimization (MLO) group. He is also a professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

Education

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Mendes did his undergraduate degree in biochemistry at the University of Lisbon. He then moved to the UK and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Aberystwyth University in 1994 for work on computer simulation of metabolic pathways.[2]

Career

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Following his PhD, Mendes moved to the National Center for Genome Resources for a year then on to the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech or VT) in 2000. He moved to the University of Manchester as Professor in 2007, while still keeping a 20% appointment in the VBI until the end of 2013.[3] In January 2014 he joined the Center for Quantitative Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center[4] and he split his time 50/50 with the appointment at the University of Manchester. From July 2016 he transitioned to a full time position at the University of Connecticut Health Center as Professor of Cell Biology.[5] He is a speaker of the IBS Biomedical Mathematics Group.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Pedro Mendes publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Mendes, Pedro (1994). Computer simulation of the dynamics of biochemical pathways (PhD thesis). University of Aberystwyth. Archived from the original on 2013-04-14.
  3. ^ "Pedro Mendes faculty page at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  4. ^ "Pedro Mendes faculty page at the University of Connecticut Health Center". Retrieved 2014-10-23.
  5. ^ "Pedro Mendes joins University of Connecticut as full-time faculty from July 1st".
  6. ^ "Pedro Mendes". Biomedical Mathematics Group. Retrieved 2024-07-27.