Bio

Hi, I’m Ben! I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. My research is focused on understanding epigenetic plasticity in cancer models. I work on the integration of multi-omics data from patients and cell lines, using state-of-the-art bioinformatic methods in R and Python.

Education

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine | Münster, Germany

Ph.D. in Biology | 2023

National Autonomous University of Mexico | Cuernavaca, Mexico

B.S. in Genomic Sciences | 2015

Interests

Gene regulation; Bivalent Chromatin; Epigenetics; Plasticity; 3D genome organisation; Evolution; Data analysis

Research Experience

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | Postdoctoral researcher | March 2025 - Now

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine | Postdoctoral fellow | June 2023 - December 2023

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine | PhD student | October 2015 - June 2023

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine | Undergraduate researcher | September 2014 - May 2015

Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Summer scholar | June 2014 - August 2014

Instituto de Biotecnologia, UNAM | Undergraduate laboratory researcher | September 2012 - May 2014

iGEM UNAM Genomics 2012 | Team member | October 2011 - May 2013