Michel Justin Dumontier (born 1975) is a Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University. His research focuses on methods to represent knowledge on the web with applications for drug discovery and personalized medicine. He was previously an Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at the

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and an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at Carleton University. He is best known for his work in biomedical ontologies, linked data and biomedical knowledge discovery. He has taught courses on biochemistry, bioinformatics, computational systems biology, and translational medicine. His research has been funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council,

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, CANARIE, and the US National Institutes of Health. Dumontier has an h-index of over 30 and has authored over 125 scientific publications in journals and conferences. He lives in Maastricht with his wife Tifany Irene Leung and their lionhead rabbit Storm.

Biography

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

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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

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. 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.". After a brief postdoctoral fellowship at the Blueprint Initiative, a project funded by Genome Canada and hosted in the

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, 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

. In 2017, he was appointed as a Distinguished Professor at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

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