Rafael Carazo Salas

University of Bristol, UK

Rafael Carazo Salas is Professor and Chair of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Bristol (https://carazosalaslab.org). Trained in Montreal, CERN, Cambridge and Paris in physics, mathematics and cell biology, he did a PhD at EMBL Heidelberg and postdoctoral work with Sir Paul Nurse in London and the Rockefeller University in New York before holding independent PI positions in ETH Zurich and University of Cambridge. With >25 years of interdisciplinary research experience in quantitative cell and systems biology Rafael has provided key contributions to the mitosis, cytoskeleton, cell polarity and cell morphogenesis fields, and is a prominent figure in the field of systems microscopy and phenomics, helping among others to co-establish the Image Data Resource (IDR; http://idr.openmicroscopy.org/). Rafael’s group uses human Pluripotent Stem Cells (hPSCs), CRISPR gene editing, high-throughput/high-content microscopy and machine learning/AI. Their aim is to learn the rules of cell fate choice and use them to predict optimal human tissue design.