Leo Speidel / シュパイデル玲雄 🔗

Group/Unit Leader

English, Japanese, German
Google scholar, ORCID
Email: <leo.speidel@outlook.com>

• Group Leader, iTHEMS, RIKEN (2024 - present).
• Sir Henry Wellcome fellow at UCL, Genetics Institute and the Francis Crick Institute (2020 - 2024).
• Postdoc in Simon Myers' group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford (2019 - 2020)
• DPhil (PhD) in Simon Myers' group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford (2015 - 2019)
• Masters in Mathematical Informatics, The University of Tokyo (2013 - 2015)
• BSc in Mathematics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2010 - 2013)

Lucas Sort 🔗

Postdoctoral Researcher

English, French

• Postdocoral Researcher, iTHEMS, RIKEN (2025 - present)
• PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning, Université Paris-Saclay (2025)
• Engineering Degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, ENSIMAG Grenoble Institute of Technology (2018-2021)
• Preparatory Class in Mathematics and Physics, Lycée Charlemagne Paris (2016-2018)

Aina Colomer i Vilaplana 🔗

Postdoctoral Researcher

English, Catalan, Spanish

• Postdocoral Researcher, iTHEMS, RIKEN (2025 - present)
• PhD in Bioinformatics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2025)
• Masters in Bioinformatics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2020)
• Masters in Genetics and Genomics, Universitat de Barcelona (2018)
• BSc in Biology, Universitat de Barcelona (2017)

Alba Nieto Heredia 🔗

Postdoctoral Researcher

English, Catalan, Spanish

• Postdocoral Researcher, iTHEMS, RIKEN (2026 - present)
• PhD in Biodiversity, Genetics, and Evolution (AI4theSciences), Natural History Museum of Paris & Institute of Evolutionary Biology Barcelona (2026)
• Masters in Bioinformatics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2021)
• BSc in Genetics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2020)

Satsuki Hirasawa / 平澤さつき 🔗

Junior Research Associate (PhD student)

English, Japanese

• PhD, iTHEMS, RIKEN and Hokkaido University (2026 - present)
• Masters of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University (2026)
• BEng in Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University (2024)

Tomoko Iwanami / 岩浪僚子 🔗

Assistant

English, Japanese