BSC, Spain
Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, PhD, leads the Technologies for Biomedical Research Laboratory at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), as well as the Coordination team of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB). INB is the Spanish node of ELIXIR, the pan-European infrastructure for research data in Life Sciences. Salvador joined the BSC in July 2017 from the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) in Madrid. A bioinformatician with a solid technological background in both Computer Engineering and Health Sciences, Salvador received his PhD in Bioinformatics in 2012, awarded by the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).
Dr Capella-Gutierrez has been responsible for coordinating TransBioNet and co-leading the ELIXIR Tools platform since January 2020. His current focus is on developing long-term infrastructures to facilitate benchmarking efforts of research software in Life Sciences, including individual tools, web services and workflows, and innovative techniques to use research data available across different infrastructures.