DrLuis Fernando Iglesias Martinez

Luis Iglesias Martinez is an Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Data Analytics in the School of Medicine. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, an M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and a PhD in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics from UCD. Dr Iglesias Martinez leads a research group at Systems Biology Ireland (SBI) that develops artificial intelligence (AI) models for cancer genomics and transcriptomics. He is a principal investigator in the Molecular and Genomics Interrogation of Childhood Cancer – Ireland (MAGIC-I) project, a five-year project aiming to perform whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing for every childhood cancer case in Ireland in collaboration with SBI, Precision Oncology Ireland, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), Illumina and GenSeq. Within MAGIC-I, he oversees the bioinformatic analysis and focuses on designing AI models for personalised patient outcome predictions and simulations.