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Nacho MOLINA

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Team Leader
nacho.molina@igbmc.fr

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Nacho Molina is the group leader of the Stochastic Systems Biology Lab. With a background in theoretical physics, Nacho Molina pursued a PhD in computational biology at the University of Basel under the supervision of Prof. Erik van Nimwegen. During this time, he received exceptional training in Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and gene regulation. Following the completion of his PhD, Nacho Molina undertook postdoctoral training at EPFL in the team of Prof. Felix Naef, collaborating closely with the team of Prof. Ueli Schibler at the University of Geneva. Subsequently, he was awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Fellowship to establish an independent research group at the University of Edinburgh. Most recently, Nacho Molina secured the INRT Chair of Excellence and the IDEX Chair for Attracting Research to create an interdisciplinary program integrating cutting-edge computational and experimental methodologies at the IGBMC.

Research Positions

2016 – Now | Group Leader and Research Director, CNRS – IGBMC, France.

2016 – Now | Faculty Lecturer, University of Strasbourg, France.

2013 – 2016 | Group Leader and Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

2009 – 2013 | Postdoctoral Researcher, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

2004 – 2008 | PhD Researcher, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Education and Diplomas

2019 | Habilitation to Direct Research. University of Strasbourg, France.

2013 | Research Leader Program. Institute of Academic Development. University of Edinburg, UK. 

2008 | PhD in Computational Biology. University of Basel, Switzerland.

2004 | MSc Thesis in Quantum Field Theory and Cosmology. NIKHEF. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

2003 | MSc in Fundamental Physics. Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain.

2001 | BSc in Physics. Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain.

Fellowships and Awards

2021 | USIAS Fellowship. University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study, France. 

2021 | Theory@EMBL Fellowship. EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

2016 | IDEX Chair for Attracting Research. University of Strasbourg, France.

2016 | INRT LabEx Chair of Excellence. IGBMC, France.

2013 | Chancellor’s Fellowship. University of Edinburgh, UK.

2011 | SIB Young Bioinformatician Award. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland.

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