Juan R Gonzalez is an Associate Research Professor at ISGlobal where leads the Bioinformatic Group in Genetic Epidemiology (BRGE).
He has co-authored more than 150 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has ample experience in large international research projects (ATHLETE, HELIX, MEDIRAD y OPERRA). As an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Autonomous University of Barcelona, his educational activities focus on providing graduate lectures on advanced statistical methods and bioinformatics. After getting his Ph.D. in Biostatistics supervised by Prof. Edsel Peña from University of South Carolina Columbia (USA), he spent two years as a post-doc at Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG).
His work focuses on the development of statistical and computational methods for the analysis and comprehension of different omic data motivated by a wide range of questions of biological and clinical relevance. These include genomic (CNVs, inversions, mosaicisms), transcriptomic (RNA-seq and alternative splicing) and proteomic among others. The analysis of the exposome, its characterization and how to integrate it with different omic layers is also another active line of research of his group.