I am Valentine Svensson, a scientist at Altos Labs working with Peter Kharchenko at the San Diego Institute of Science to use single cell transcriptomics and spatial transcriptomics to identify treatments for aging-related diseases and ailments. You can reach me through valentine (at) nxn.se.

Background

Biotechnology industry

I worked at the biotechnology startup Vesalius Therapeutics, starting as one of the first ten employees, on analysis and statistical methods for complex in vitro models.

Postdoctoral scholarship

After my PhD I worked with Lior Pachter at Caltech on statistics for omics based cell biology, developing computational methods and experimental platforms.

PhD

I did my PhD in molecular biology with Sarah Teichmann at the EMBL-EBI and Wellcome Sanger institute at Cambridge University. I investigated how we could think about probabilistic models for cell differentiation when analyzing single cell gene expression data.

Mathematics

When I studied mathematics I was particularly interested in Riemannian geometry, more specifically the theory of Lie groups. For my BSc thesis in mathematics at Lund University I surveyed some theorems about Lie groups, and developed a Maple program for calculating curvatures of Lie groups.

Computation

Being interested in mathematics and computers naturally leads to exposing oneself to various applications of mathematics, like numerical analysis, cryptography and computer vision.

Other

I worked at SciLifeLab Stockholm, a scientific endeavor focusing on high throughput biology. There I was an application expert in the bioinformatics group, and later an analyst in a method development project.