Prof. Enrique Hernandez-Lemus

Enrique Hernandez-Lemus, Ph.D., is a Principal Investigator at the Mexican National Institute of Health and Head of the Computational Systems Biology and Integrative Genomics Lab at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Mexico). He is also the Coordinator of the Computational Intelligence Program for the Center of Complexity Sciences at the National University of Mexico UNAM. From April 2015 through September 2019, he was the Deputy Director of Research for Computational and Population Genomics at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine. Professor Hernandez-Lemus holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics-Dynamic Phase Transitions). He started his research career working in Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, to later turn his attention to problems in Biological Complexity and Systems Biology; he has authored around 180 scientific publications and supervised the work of 25 students at the graduate and undergraduate level.