About

I am a biologist who found in computation the tools to ask questions at scales that bench work alone cannot reach. My trajectory has moved from ecology and science mapping to NGS pipelines and transcriptomic analysis, with applied work in environmental informatics and geospatial automation along the way. Outside the lab, a decade of theatre — acting, directing, writing — has shaped how I communicate ideas and collaborate across disciplines.

Research Experience

Oct 2025 — Feb 2026

Trainee Bioinformatician — Master's Thesis

CABIMER · Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa, Seville

Supervised by Cristina González Aguilera

Developed a computational pipeline for the characterisation of RNA isoforms from NGS data, focusing on the detection of alternative splicing events. The work spanned the full analysis cycle — from quality control and read alignment through to differential expression and publication-ready visualisation in R.

R Bioconductor edgeR STAR HISAT2 Bash FastQC Samtools

Oct — Nov 2025

Python Developer Intern

Biotfy · Remote

Supervised by Jesús Sancho Giaver & Víctor Galvín Coronil

Built a Python automation pipeline of over 1,000 lines to generate Environmental Impact Assessment reports, integrating live IoT sensor data, public government databases, and automated geospatial mapping. Containerised with Docker and exposed as a REST microservice via FastAPI.

Python FastAPI GeoPandas Docker GCP ReportLab

Sep 2023 — Aug 2024

Undergraduate Researcher

Dept. of Plant Biology and Ecology · University of Seville

Supervised by Juan Manuel Mancilla Leyton

Led a bibliometric study mapping 30 years of scientific literature on anaerobic digestion by-products, processing 802 documents from Scopus. Identified emerging research clusters in biohydrogen, volatile fatty acids, and biorefineries — resulting in a first-author publication in Fermentation (MDPI, Q2).

VOSviewer Scopus Science mapping Scientific writing

Publications

Research Trends in the Recovery of By-Products from Organic Waste Treated by Anaerobic Digestion: A 30-Year Bibliometric Analysis

Castillo García, P., Fernández-Rodríguez, M. J., Borja, R., Mancilla-Leytón, J. M., & de la Lama-Calvente, D.

Fermentation, 10(9), 446  ·  MDPI  ·  2024

doi.org/10.3390/fermentation10090446
Fermentation MDPI · Q2 First Author Open Access

Projects

IPM Pest Identifier

GitHub

A diagnostic tool for the identification of crop pests and diseases, built on a structured relational database derived from Integrated Pest Management guides published by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture. Designed to support farmers and agronomists in applying IPM principles without requiring specialist knowledge at every decision point.

Python Relational DB Data modelling IPM · Agriculture

Personal Portfolio

Live

A hand-coded academic portfolio built in pure HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript — no frameworks, no templates. Designed from scratch to prioritise control and long-term maintainability over development convenience, with a scientific-editorial visual language.

HTML CSS JavaScript GitHub Pages

Skills

Programming & Data Science

PythonPandasNumPy RTidyverseggplot2 Bash / Shell

Bioinformatics

RNA-SeqNGS Analysis STARHISAT2FastQC BioconductoredgeR SamtoolsBedtools MACS2Trim Galore!FeatureCounts

Infrastructure & DevOps

DockerGit / GitHub GCPLinux FastAPIREST APIs

Research Methods

BibliometricsVOSviewer ScopusScientific WritingData Mining

Arts & Communication

Over ten years of active theatre — acting, directing, and scriptwriting — shaping an approach to communication that is direct, considered, and built for an audience.

Public SpeakingScriptwriting Stage DirectionScientific Writing Adaptability

Languages

Spanish native English C1 German A2

Education

MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

BSc in Biology

University of Seville

International academic exchanges — Germany & Italy

Additional Training

Machine Learning Workflow Overview University of Granada
Learning R for RNA Expression Analysis University of Granada
Regression Techniques in R University of Granada

Selected Work