Marco Barbero Mota
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Marco Barbero Mota completed his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid including two international exchanges at University of California Riverside and University of New South Wales. He also holds a master’s in research in Bioengineering from Imperial College London. During 2020/2021 he was employed by INSERM-Université de Paris-Hôpital Bichat.
He joined DBMI at Vanderbilt University as a master's student in Fall 2021 funded by the Fullbright Scholarship. Marco is admitted as a PhD student for Fall 2023 with funding from Fundacion "la Caixa" of Barcelona, Spain. The fellowship award is administered by the "la Caixa" Program Office at Indiana University. Marco's mentor is Tom Lasko.
In 2024, he received second place at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium's Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group Innovation Competition for his paper titled “A data-driven approach to discover and quantify systemic lupus erythematosus etiological heterogeneity from electronic health records”.