HERNANDEZ LEMUS, ENRIQUE

Enrique Hernandez-Lemus, Ph.D. is a Principal Investigator at the Mexican National Institutes of Health and Head of the Computational Systems Biology and Integrative Genomics Lab at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Mexico).He is also the Coordinator of the Computational Intelligence Program for the Center of Complexity Sciences, at the National University of Mexico UNAM. From April 2015 through September 2019 he was the Deputy Director of Research for Computational and Population Genomics at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine.

Professor Hernandez-Lemus holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics - Dynamic Phase Transitions). He started his research career working in Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, to later turn his attention to problems in Biological Complexity and Systems Biology; has authored more than 200 scientific publications and supervised the work of 30 students at the graduate and undergraduate level.

Dr. Hernandez-Lemus has been a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, the Computational Biology Center at the TJ Watson IBM Research Laboratories; the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Department of Physics and Mathematics at Rutgers University, and at the Principe Felipe Research Center in Spain, among others.

Recently, he has been awarded the 2016 Marcos Moshinsky fellowship in Physical Sciences. He is a member of the Mexican National Researchers’ System (Level III, the highest) and of the Mexican Health Ministry Research Network (level F, the highest).