I'm a Professor of Population and Quantitative Genetics (Universidad de la República) and the head of Bioinformatics at Institut Pasteur Montevideo (Uruguay). My research focus involves functional and evolutionary genomics. In particular, I'm interested in the application of quantitative methods derived from statistical genetics in the bioinformatics field, in addition to some ongoing research in the field of quantitative genomics. Key work involves pathogenicity from the genomics point of view, quantitative genetics applied to animal breeding, massive data analysis and methods. In addition, we established the Uruguayan Human Genome Project (URUGENOMES), where we ventured into the analysis of Latin-American human genome variability and its consequences for anthropology and genomic medicine.