Amonida Zadissa

Amonida Zadissa joined UK DRI in November 2022 as Associate Director of Informatics, after 2.5 years as Senior Strategy Officer at the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI). In this role, she conducted scientific project management within EMBL-EBI and organised institutional responses to requests from governments and funding agencies for information and analysis. She was involved in the coordination of EMBL-EBI's COVID-19 efforts and was the point of contact for international collaborators' requests for information regarding the scientific aspects of the work.

She holds an MSc in Molecular Biotechnology from Uppsala University and a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Otago. She has worked within the human data space for over 15 years, including eleven years on the Ensembl project as a bioinformatician, annotation manager and coordinator.