Pedro Fernandes

Lisbon Area, Portugal Portugal

Bioinformatics Training Coordinator at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Education

My first degree is in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. Very soon I discovered that I was mostly attracted by Biology, and later by the use of biological information to discover more knowledge about biomedicine. Currently I focus on training in Bioinformatics. Here is a summary of my activities: - Development and deployment of Bioinformatics services to communities of users. Optimized acquistion of skills in Bioinformatics via intensive hands-on courses and distance training. - Integration of advanced instrumentation, software and human expertise. - In the past few years, development of unconventional adult training methods, merging the concepts of andragogy, flipped-c...