About Leo

Bayesian Computational Biology · Data Engineering · University of Liverpool

I am a Tenure Track Fellow in Health at the University of Liverpool, UK, working in the Signal Processing Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. I am interested in exploring scalable Bayesian models for genome and disease evolution, with a particular focus on microbes of established, emerging, or potential clinical relevance.

I was the Head of Phylogenomics at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) in Norwich, UK, where I developed, implemented, and streamlined computational methods for the evolutionary analysis of microbial data sets.

Previously, I worked in Evolutionary Genomics at the Dessimoz Group at the University of Lausanne, where I was also affiliated with the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. I have also worked on Hyperspectral Data Analysis at the Stevens Group of Imperial College London and on Phylogenomics at David Posada’s Lab at the University of Vigo.

I completed my Ph.D. in Bayesian Phylogenetics at the Laboratory of Biometry and Bioinformatics of the University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Prof. Hirohisa Kishino.

Signal Processing Group
Dept Electrical Engineering and Electronics
University of Liverpool, L69 7ZF

Leonardo.de-Oliveira-Martins (at liverpool.ac.uk)

Since we struggle with international names: my first name is Leonardo and my surname (family name) is de Oliveira Martins. I don’t have a middle name.

You can check my personal repositories on github and on bitbucket. My official homepage at the University of Liverpool is here.

Google scholar seems to have the most up-to-date info about my publications. You can also find me on mastodon https://mstdn.science/@leomrtns and Bluesky leomrtns.bsky.social.