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Douglas Pires
PeerJ Editor & Reviewer
115 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 15
Editor 100

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Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Genetics
Oncology
Medical Genetics
Ophthalmology

Douglas Pires

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

Summary

Douglas Pires is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Previously, he was a group leader and researcher in public health at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Brazil. He was also a postdoctoral researcher fellow at the University of Cambridge and University of Melbourne. He received a PhD in Bioinformatics from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Brazil and a BSc in Computer Science, both with highest honours, by the same university. His research interests include: Computational Biology, Translational Bioinformtaics and Machine Learning.

Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Computational Biology Data Mining & Machine Learning Data Science Genetics Genomics Medical Genetics Molecular & Collisional Dynamics

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Melbourne

Work details

Senior Lecturer

University of Melbourne
June 2019
School of Computing and Information Systems
I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health specialising in computational biology and translational bioinformatics at the University of Melbourne, School of Computing and Information Systems. The research developed in my group aims to develop new computational approaches to guide patient management and allow for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in disease conditions.

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PeerJ Contributions