Michel Dumontier

Dumontier received his Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of Manitoba in 1998. In his second year of undergraduate study, he joined the lab of James D. Jamieson where he developed a computational method to reconstruct the Golgi Apparatus. He then worked as research assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich to investigate cellular dynamics of Rac1 protein of small GTPases. He defended his PhD in the department of biochemistry at the University of Toronto on the subject of "Species-specific optimizations of sequence and structure.".^[4] After a brief postdoctoral fellowship at the Blueprint Initiative, a project funded by Genome Canada and hosted in the Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute, he joined the department of biology at Carleton University as an assistant professor in 2005. He was subsequently cross-appointed to the school of computer science and the Institute of Biochemistry and promoted to associate professor in 2009. In 2013, he joined the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research in the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2017, he was appointed as a distinguished professor at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.