Dr Alejandro Valenzuela Seba holds a degree in Genetics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics from Lund University and a PhD in Biomedicine from Pompeu Fabra University, under the supervision of Drs Arcadi Navarro and David Alejandro de Juan Sopeña.
He began his research career at IMIM in the study of coding sequences in 2016, and later expanded his training in Sweden before returning to Barcelona in 2019 to develop his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE-CSIC-UPF). His doctoral research focused on the integration of genomic and phenomic data to study longevity, disease susceptibility and neurodegeneration in humans, primates and other mammals. He has collaborated with international consortia such as the Zoonomia Consortium and the Primate Genome Sequence Consortium, and is co-author of more than 10 scientific articles, including a special issue of Science dedicated to the generation of a catalogue of genetic variation in primates and mammals by 2023.

Currently, at Ace Alzheimer Centre Barcelona, he is researching the genetic basis of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases through genome sequence analysis, drawing on his expertise in genomics and bioinformatics.