Lourdes Peña-Castillo

Dr. Lourdes Peña-Castillo,PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Biology (jointly appointed) in the Faculty of Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). She leads the Bioinformatics lab at MUN which is focused on the application of machine learning-based methods to solve microbiology problems. Before coming to MUN, Dr. Peña-Castillo obtained her Ph.D. from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Germany and did a 3-year postdoc in the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto.