
Dr. Tommi Nyrönen Ph.D. is the Head of the ELIXIR Finland node in the European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information ELIXIR at CSC - IT Center for Science. He leads technical work in the European 1+ million genomes initiative, and its implementation project - European Genomic Data Infrastructure. The key focus of Finnish participation in European health & biomedical field is in the unique expertise and data resources in genomic research, and provision of large-scale IT infrastructure services and training for analysis of high-quality biological and biomedical information. Nyrönen is an author of scientific articles and patents and software in data management, training and structure-based drug discovery. He also co-founded of a bioinformatics start-up back in early 2000. He is an adjunct professor in computational drug discovery at the University of Helsinki (2008), and a past by-fellow in bioinformatics at the Churchill college, University of Cambridge (2012).