Arlindo Oliveira has been appointed new Head of ELIXIR Node in Portugal, following a successful nomination to the Board of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - Research and Technology Foundation in Portugal). Prof Oliveira replaces Dr José Pereira Leal who has recently stepped down to focus on his role as the coordinator of the natinonal bioinformatics Research Infrastructure, present it the National Roadmap.
Professor Oliveira is the President of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon and a member of its Executive Board. With a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, his research interests include algorithms and complexity, Machine Learning and Computational Biology.
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