Meltem Gürel
About Meltem Gürel
Meltem Gürel is a Senior Bioinformatics Data Scientist at BenevolentAI in London, with a background in computational immunology and extensive experience in cancer genomics research.
Current Position
Meltem Gürel is currently serving as a Senior Bioinformatics Data Scientist at BenevolentAI in London, England, United Kingdom. In her role, she applies advanced bioinformatics techniques to drug discovery and development processes. Her work contributes to harnessing artificial intelligence for accelerating scientific discovery in the field of biomedical research.
Previous Roles
Prior to her current position, Meltem Gürel worked at various prestigious institutions. She was a Doctoral Student at Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute from 2015 to 2020, involved in groundbreaking cancer genomics research. From 2013 to 2015, she led software development within the Zeugma Archaeological Project. She has also been a Senior Research Associate at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010-2012) and a Postgrad Student at Trinity College Dublin (2008-2009). Additionally, she worked as a Software Developer at Pleksus Information Technologies CO. from 2005 to 2008.
Educational Background
Meltem Gürel's educational journey is distinguished by her PhD in Computational Immunology and Statistics from the University of Cambridge (2015-2019). She completed an MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems) at Trinity College Dublin (2008-2009) and earned a BSc in Mathematics from Hacettepe University (2000-2005). Her academic achievements have laid a robust foundation for her career in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Research Contributions
Throughout her career, Meltem Gürel has made significant contributions to the field of bioinformatics. During her PhD at the University of Cambridge, she published a research paper on computational immunology in a peer-reviewed journal and developed a novel bioinformatics tool utilized in cancer research. She presented her research at the International Conference on Bioinformatics in 2018 and received a research grant from a prominent scientific organization. Her work at Cancer Research UK involved collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to advance cancer genomics research.
Mentorship and Collaboration
Meltem Gürel has actively participated in mentoring and collaboration throughout her career. At the University of Cambridge, she mentored undergraduate students in bioinformatics and computational biology. She contributed to the development of a software platform for archaeological data analysis at the Zeugma Archaeological Project. Furthermore, she participated in a genetic data analysis research project at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as a reviewer for several scientific journals in bioinformatics and computational biology.