Dr. Maria Chatzou DunfordFounder

United Kingdom - London, England

My two favorite words: Self-Development & Evolution

My mantra: "The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams"

Who am I:
I am a person that learns fast, adapts fast and even with partial information is good at quickly figuring out the rest..... What is needed and what is not, what is good and what is not, what will have an impact and what will not. I have learned that in order to receive you have to give and then ask. Then you need to constantly re-assess and evolve, allowing you to give and then receive in return. I am a doer that loves a good challenge & cares about making a difference through innovative science-based tech solutions. I am passionate about coding, entrepreneurship, innovation, genomics, research, personalized medicine, healthcare, life-sciences, technologies, start-ups, dancing and all sports related to sea!

More about me:
Dr. Maria Chatzou holds a PhD in Biomedicine, MSc in Bioinformatics and BSc in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics. She is a biotech innovator and a proud geek, expert in bioinformatics, medical informatics and high performance computing (HPC). She is also a passionate entrepreneur. She has already founded two companies, Innovation Forum Barcelona and the Techstars-backed Lifebit.

As a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona, Spain, she designed and deployed tools and methods that facilitate the analysis of Big Biomedical Data, allow for biological discoveries, and promote personalised medicine. She was also part of the developing team of Nextflow, a programming framework that is revolutionising the computational analysis of genomic data.

Dr. Chatzou is a frequent industry speaker and has spoken on the subject of HPC, Cloud & Big Data, Genomics Workflows, Personalized Medicine, Women in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Start-Ups and Deep Tech Innovation in many international conferences.