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Mencía Álvarez-Sala Diaz-Caneja

Bioinformatician

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Emile Voest

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Fields of expertise

Bioinformatics

Genomics

Structural Biology

In July 2026, I joined Emile Voest’s research group as a Bioinformatician. I recently finished my master’s internship on computational structural immunology and my work at the NKI focuses on providing bioinformatics support across the group’s research lines, contributing to multi-omics data analysis and the
development of computational pipelines to address translational research questions.

Work experience

2018-2022
Obtained my Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in Biotechnology (Health track) from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

2022-2024
Worked at GSK as Scientific Advisor in the Vaccines and Immunology Medical Affairs department, supporting the launch of the RSV vaccine in Spain

2024-2026
Obtained my Master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from the Vrije Universiteit and Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

2025-2026
Within my Master’s studies, I performed a research internship at AstraZeneca focused on improving computationally generated pMHC structures using physics-based methods

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