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Instructor in Medicine
Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Simona completed her PhD at ETH Zürich in Switzerland in Niko Beerenwinkel’s group. In her PhD thesis, she devised novel probabilistic models and algorithms to infer temporal progression and mutual exclusivity among cancer drivers from big data. Prior to this work, she graduated from the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Master program at ETH Zürich, and from two Bachelor programs in Bucharest, with degrees in Mathematics and Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics. Simona was awarded the ETH Excellence Scholarship in the course of her Master studies, and Merit Scholarships in the course of her Bachelor studies. For her postdoc, Simona was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). At DFCI, Simona investigates questions of cancer heterogeneity and progression, and evolutionary genetic mechanisms. To this end, she integrates various single-cell and bulk tumor datasets with computational and statistical models.
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
| Name |
Simona Cristea |
| Nationality |
Romanian |
| Address |
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CLS Building
3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115 |
| Email address |
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Education
| 2006 - 2009 |
Bachelor in Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania |
| 2006 - 2009 |
Bachelor in Informatics, Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania |
| 2008 - 2009 |
Erasmus Exchange Student, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2009 - 2011 |
Master's degree in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2011 - 2015 |
PhD, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
Scientific Career
| 2011 - 2014 |
Teaching Assistant, Evolutionary Dynamics (Master-level course), ETH Zurich |
| 2016 - 2020 |
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| 2020 - present |
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
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