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Christophe Dessimoz

Christophe Dessimoz
Christophe Dessimoz speaking at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) / European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Basel, 2019
Born	Christophe Dessimoz 1980 (age 43–44)
Alma mater	ETH Zurich (MSc, PhD)
Known for	Orthologous MAtrix (OMA)[4]
Awards	Overton Prize (2019)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics Genomics Phylogenetics Evolution Computational Biology[2]
Institutions	University of Lausanne European Bioinformatics Institute University College London Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Thesis	Comparative Genomics Using Pairwise Evolutionary Distances (2009)
Doctoral advisor	Gaston Gonnet[3]
Website	lab.dessimoz.org/people/christophe-dessimoz

Christophe Dessimoz is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor at the University of Lausanne, Associate Professor at University College London and a group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.^{[5][2][6][7][8]} He was awarded the Overton Prize in 2019 for his contributions to computational biology.^[1] Starting in April 2022, he will be joint executive director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, along with Ron Appel.

Dessimoz obtained his Master of Science degree in 2003^[5] and PhDinComputer Science in 2009 from ETH ZurichinSwitzerland^[9] where his doctoral research was supervised by Gaston Gonnet^[3] and examined by Amos Bairoch.^[9]

After postdoctoral research at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) on the Wellcome Genome CampusinHinxton, Cambridgeshire,^[10] he joined University College London (UCL) as lecturer in 2013, and was promoted to Reader in 2015.^[5] In 2015, he joined the University of Lausanne as professor, retaining an appointment at UCL.^[11] Since 2016, Dessimoz has served as group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics^[5] where his research interests are in bioinformatics, genomics, phylogenetics, evolution and computational biology.^{[2][12][13][14][15]}

Dessimoz is known for his management of the Orthologous MAtrix (OMA)^[4] which provides information on orthologous proteins. OMA has important applications in protein function prediction.^[1] Dessimoz's approach to benchmarking had a major impact on three key subfields of computational biology: orthology inference, sequence alignment, and the gene ontology (GO).^[1][16][17]

Dessimoz was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2019 for outstanding contributions to computational biology.^[1]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Kovats, Diane; Shamir, Ron; Fogg, Christiana (2019). "2019 ISCB Overton Prize: Christophe Dessimoz". F1000Research. 8: 722. doi:10.12688/f1000research.19220.1. ISSN 2046-1402. PMC 6534074. PMID 31164977.

^ ^{a b c} Christophe Dessimoz publications indexed by Google Scholar

^ ^{a b} Christophe Dessimoz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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^ ^{a b} Dessimoz, Christophe (2009). Comparative Genomics Using Pairwise Evolutionary Distances. ethz.ch (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich. doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005762050. hdl:20.500.11850/72801. OCLC 935351416.

^ Dessimoz, Christophe (2017). Dessimoz, Christophe; Škunca, Nives (eds.). The Gene Ontology Handbook. Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 1446. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3743-1. ISBN 9781493937431. ISSN 1064-3745. S2CID 3708801.