Dr. Venkata SATAGOPAM

Current Professional positions

• 2025 – Present

  Head of Clinical and Translational Informatics Group, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg (UL)

• 2022 – Present

  FIAS Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany

• 2017 – Present

  Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Head of Bioinformatics Core, LCSB, UL,

• 2016 – Present

  Technical Coordinator, ELIXIR Luxembourg Node

Past Professional positions

• 2022 – 2023

  Secondment, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany

• 2013 – 2019

  Research Scientist, LCSB, University of Luxembourg

• 2010 – 2012

  Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

• 2004 – 2010

  Scientific Programmer, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

• 2001 – 2003

  Bioinformatics Scientist, Research & Development, LION Bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany

• 1999 – 2000

  Lecturer, Bharat College of Pharmacy, Hyderabad, India

Other professional activities

• 2020 – Present

  Co-Chair of ELIXIR Health Data Focus Group (HDFG)

• 2017 – Present

  Co-Chair of International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Education Committee

• 2016 – Present

  Co-Chair of Translational Medicine Informatics & Applications (TransMed) Communities of Special Interest (COSI)

• 2015 – Present

  Academic advisor and mentor to Master’s and PhD students of Luxembourg regional group of ISCB

• 2004 – Present

  Life Member of International Society for Computational Biology

Education

• 2022

  ADR (autorisation à diriger des recherches)

• 2018

  PhD from Technical University Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany.
  Thesis: “Applying Data Integration and Knowledge Management Techniques to Analyze Systems Biology Data” (Summa cum Laude).

• 2001

  Post Graduate diploma in management information systems (computer applications, information technology major), Center for management and information technology, Hyderabad, India.

• 1999

  Master of Pharmaceutical Bio-Technology, College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India. Thesis: Optimization and Modelling of Fermentation Process of Alkaline Proteinase by Strain of Bacillus PE – 11.

• 1997

  Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.