Léo Diaz
I studied biology at the undergraduate level; I specialised in bioinformatics and systems biology halfway through, obtaining a BSc in biological sciences and later an MSc in bioinformatics & theoretical systems biology, both from Imperial College London. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate since February 2019.
During my MSc, I worked on different ways of inferring regulatory gene networks and how the resulting models compared. From this, I started being interested in modelling and the way we mathematically represent biological systems. So far, my Ph.D. focuses on understanding and dealing with uncertainty in models of biological systems with a focus on stochasticity. I am interested in the concepts of robustness, sensitivity, parameter inferrability and, more broadly, uncertainty, and how these properties are implemented in real world phenomena and how best to represent them when building models.