Dr. Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido is specialized in computational life sciences and biomedical data science. As part of the Center for Neurogenetics at WCM, her research focuses on understanding the underlying genetic causes of neurological conditions, how these causes can be influenced by environmental factors, and how these findings can be applied to clinical practice. Background and interests include big data analytics, bioinformatics, machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, ontologies, biomedical data integration, health informatics, epigenetics and omics in general.