Sergio Santander-Jiménez received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Extremadura, Spain, in 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor at UEx, where he carries out his research activity in the ARCO research group (Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group). Dr. Santander-Jiménez’s research focuses on the proposal and evaluation of innovative algorithmic approaches for multi-objective optimization (nature-inspired metaheuristics, novel fitness assignment procedures, multi-domain searches) and their integration with parallel and distributed computing (inter-algorithmic and intra-algorithmic parallelism on multi-core multiprocessors, computing clusters, hardware accelerators, etc.) to address time-consuming problems in bioinformatics and biomedicine (specifically, phylogenetic reconstruction, protein coding, and epistasis detection).

Dr. Santander-Jiménez is the author or co-author of over 60 publications, and has also participated in the organization of multiple international conferences on high-performance computing, computational intelligence, and bioinformatics. He has edited three special issues and has served as a reviewer for over 30 international journals indexed in the JCR, including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Transactions on Computers, and Transactions on Cybernetics. He is one of the co-directors of the International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (PBio), one of the flagship events for high-performance computing.