Jordi Abante

Jordi Abante, PhD

Ramón y Cajal Fellow · Principal Investigator

Dept. Biomedicine, UB UBNeuro IDIBAPS CIBERNED · ISCIII

about jordi

Jordi leads a lab developing machine learning and probabilistic methods that connect molecular variation and cellular states with brain function, working at the intersection of computational genomics and computational neuroscience.

  1. Sep 2025 – present position

    Ramón y Cajal fellow · principal investigator

    Universitat de Barcelona

    Department of Biomedicine.

  2. Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 fellowship

    "la Caixa" Junior Leader fellowship

    Universitat de Barcelona

    Department of Biomedicine.

  3. Sep 2023 – Sep 2024 position

    Lecturer

    Universitat de Barcelona

    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

  4. Jan 2023 – Sep 2024 position

    Postdoctoral researcher

    Universitat de Barcelona

    In the Department of Biomedicine (Canals lab) and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (Radeva lab), developing methods for multimodal single-cell data analysis to study brain development and developmental alterations in Huntington’s disease.

  5. 2021 – Jan 2023 position

    Postdoctoral research fellow

    Stanford University

    Biomedical Data Science Department (Salzman lab).

    2021 – 2022 fellowship

    CEHG postdoctoral fellowship

    Awarded by the Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics, funding the first year of the postdoc.

  6. Aug 2016 – Aug 2021 education

    PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering

    Johns Hopkins University

    Defended his dissertation, “Statistical Signal Processing Methods for Epigenetic Landscape Analysis”, in May 2021.

    2016 – 2018 education

    MS in Applied Mathematics & Statistics

    Focused on statistical learning, earned alongside the PhD.

  7. 2014 – 2016 education

    MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering

    Texas A&M University

    Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering (Datta lab), working on computational genomics.

    2015 fellowship

    "la Caixa" fellowship for PhD research

    Johns Hopkins University

    To join the Goutsias lab and develop computational methods to study epigenetic signatures, in close collaboration with the Feinberg lab of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

  8. 2008 – 2014 education

    BS in Industrial Engineering

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

    Power electronics and signals, Barcelona.