Alberto Santos

Alberto Santos is Scientific Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he leads the Multi-omics Network Analytics research group (MoNA) and the Informatics Platform. With a background in Computer Science and Bioinformatics, Alberto earned his PhD in Computational Biology at the University of Copenhagen (KU). His career spans work in clinical proteomics at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in the team of Prof. Matthias Mann, leadership roles at the Big Data Institute (Oxford) and the Center for Health Data Science (KU), and as Associate Director at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, where he specialised in biobank data and data infrastructure. His expertise aims to connect computational biology, data science, and translational research.

Alberto’s research bridges data science and biology aiming to address challenges in environmental and human health. His work focuses on using graph-based methodologies to extract new insights from high-dimensional, heterogeneous biological data, enabling the integration of multi-omics datasets and the translation of computational models into actionable biological knowledge. A key area is the application of Knowledge Graphs to structure and contextualise omics data, including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and clinical datasets.
Further, Alberto’s work applies Graph Machine Learning to analyze multimodal datasets, such as combining clinical and proteomics data, to identify patterns and predict outcomes in complex diseases. A foundation of his research is the development of open-source tools to standardize the creation, evaluation, and mining of biological graphs. These resources empower the research community to build reproducible pipelines, accelerating discovery in translational research.