María José Rimón

Bio: María José Rimón Martínez studied Biology at the University of Murcia, Spain, where she gained extensive lab experience through internships focused on genomics and molecular biology. Her interest in these fields led her to conduct her Final Degree Project on using zebrafish as an animal model for psoriasis drug discovery, which sparked her interest in bioinformatics. To deepen her expertise, María José pursued a Master’s degree in Computational Biology at the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid. There, she honed her skills in several programming languages, applying them to modeling, lead discovery, and genomic analysis. For her master’s thesis, she spent six months at the CNB (National Biotechnology Centre) collaborating with the Scientific Computing Service to design an R package called MADFBA (Multi-model Adaptive Dynamic Flux Balance Analysis) aimed at improving metabolic network simulations. María José has experience in both experimental and computational fields and is eager to continue learning and expanding her expertise.

Project: Genome scale network models

Supervisor: Prof. Jürgen Zanghellini