Francesc Coll I Cerezo

I am a principal investigator (Científico titular) at the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (IBV, Spanish National Research Council) where I lead the Applied Microbial Genomics Unit. Before that I was a senior Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK), and an Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), supported by an Institutional Strategic Support Fund Fellowship (ISSF), funded by Wellcome & LSHTM. I joined LSHTM in July 2016 as an Research Fellow (post-doc) funded by a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, after joining the research group led by Prof. Sharon Peacock at the University of Cambridge, UK. In October 2014, I completed my Ph.D. at LSHTM under the supervision of Prof. Taane Clark, which focused on strain genotyping and drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using whole genome sequencing. I obtained my degree in Biotechnology from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2010, Spain, followed by an MSc in Bioinformatics in Cranfield University, UK.