Santiago Schnell

Assistant Professor of Informatics

E-mail

Phone

(812) 856-1833

Fax

(812) 856-1995

Office

919 E. 10th Street, Room 304

Hours

By appointment

Web Site

www.informatics.indiana.edu/schnell

Other Titles

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology
• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics
• Associate Director, Biocomplexity Institute

Research Interests

Prof. Schnell is the head of the Systems Biology laboratory and faculty of the Complex System group in the School of Informatics. Biology deals with phenomena that are intrinsically more complex and more difficult to investigate than those normally studied in other natural sciences. In recent years, systems biology has led to important insights into many fundamental questions using mathematical and computational modelling as a research tool. Prof. Schnell is interested in applying systems biology techniques to study complex biochemical reactions and embryology. His research focuses in four areas: theoretical enzymology, understanding the structures of biochemical pathways, biochemical theories for the origin of life, and patterning through segmentation in developmental biology.

Education

License in Biology from Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela), 1996. D.Phil. in Applied Mathematics from University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 2002.

Biography

Prof. Schnell received his License in Biology (with special emphasis on biochemistry and molecular biology) and D.Phil. in Applied Mathematics from Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) and University of Oxford (United Kingdom), respectively. He has just left a position in the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. He held the posts of Ordinary Fellow of the Wellcome Trust (London) and Junior Research Fellow of Christ Church (Oxford).

He was the José Gregorio Hernández Research Fellow of the Venezuelan Academy of Medicine, the Lord Miles Senior Scholar in Science of Pembroke College (Oxford) and Lecturer in Applied Mathematics for Pembroke and Brasenose College (Oxford).

He also is a founding member of the Bioethical Committee of the Venezuelan National Council of Science.