I am a computational biologist from Lisbon, Portugal. I currently work as a postdoctoral fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, with Jens Lagergren (KTH, SciLifeLab) and Jonas Frisén (KI). My current focus is on developing computational methods for the analysis of time-series and spatial single-cell sequencing data from tumors.
I obtained my PhD in May 2024 at the Computational Biology Group at the department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of ETH Zürich, supervised by Niko Beerenwinkel and Jack Kuipers. I developed Bayesian models to extract information from high-throughput single-cell sequencing data and reconstruct the evolution of tumors.
Before joining ETH Zürich in 2019, I obtained an integrated Master’s degree in electrical engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, with a major in telecommunications. My thesis was about probabilistic matrix factorisation models for scRNA-seq data analysis with Susana Vinga and Alexandra M. Carvalho. During my studies, I took software engineering internships at Jungle AI and Pentaho.
E-mail: pedro.ferreira [at] scilifelab.se