Leadership Team
Tobias H. Kloepper, PhD
CEO & Founder
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Tobias has been working in the Life Sciences for more than 15 years and has applied cutting edge data and analytics technologies to advance our understanding of biology. He founded Aigenpulse to help accelerate drug development processes through enabling the use of modern data technologies in Life Science companies. He specialises in supporting successful technology transformations and implementing advanced data analytics environments.
Tobias received his PhD from the University of Tuebingen in Germany focussing on algorithmic approaches to model the evolution of bacteria. His interest in transferring technology into every day uses led him to work at the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen, the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and the Dunn School in Oxford before venturing into applying his skills in industry.

Satnam Surae, PhD
CHIEF pRODUCT OFFICER
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Satnam has been active in the Life Sciences for more than 10 years. While originally focussing on Biochemistry, he discovered early on his passion for applying information technologies to biological challenges. His unique ability to transition between both worlds enables our teams to effectively develop the product and at the same time provides him with the ability to shape our customer engagement.
Satnam received a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and MRes in Computational Biology from the University of York (UK). He went on to receive his PhD in Computational Structural Biology from University College Dublin (Ireland) in 2015 focussing on engineering Bone Morphogenetic Proteins as potential therapeutics for diabetic nephropathy. Following this, Satnam worked in industrial biotechnology developing metabolic models to engineer microorganisms with the aim of producing chemical intermediates prior to joining Aigenpulse.
Sylvain Duquenne
Head of Software
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Sylvain is an experienced Software Engineer and Data Scientist having worked in a variety of industries such as Life Sciences, Logistics and Retail. He is deeply passionate about technology and how it can be shaped to optimise processes and empower people. Sylvain has proven excellence in software architecture, database design and machine learning within different environments. Since he joined Aigenpulse in October 2016, he has been shaping the software engineering team and has taken over core responsibilities for the development of the product.
Sylvain received a BSc in Computer Sciences and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) followed by an MSc in Marketing Analysis at the Ghent University (Belgium). He first studied the foundations of computer science and software engineering before focusing on optimisation and machine learning to then apply his knowledge to state of the art analytics challenges.
Michal Wozny, MBA
head of delivery
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With an engineering background and an Oxford Saïd MBA, Michal has been delivering life science projects for nearly a decade. His objective is managing projects from inception to delivery, and looking after products through the entire life cycle. Michal employs PRINCE2 and AGILE methodologies to ensure maximum value is delivered to customers.

Eduardo de Paiva Alves, PhD
Head of Bioinformatics
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Eduardo brings extensive experience as both as a bionformatician and a software engineer. He was responsible for development and deployment of analytical software involving large datasets and HPC computing for leading financial institutions.
He also works in several bioinformatics research projects involving all aspects of genomics.
Eduardo received a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Electro-communications in Tokyo, Japan for his work in Natural Language Processing. After 10 years working as a developer and team lead in the financial industry, Eduardo pursued a Post Grad Certificate in Digital Biology from the University of Manchester on non-coding RNA alignment and homology search. He then started working as a Bioinformatician at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland before joining Aigenpulse.