I am Camila Duitama González, a Research Software Engineer in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases group led by Sebastian Duchene at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. My work focuses on developing computational pipelines and software infrastructure for infectious disease research.

I completed my PhD and a postdoctoral stay in the Sequence Bioinformatics group at Institut Pasteur, under the supervision of Dr. Rayan Chikhi and Dr. Hugues Richard, funded by the Paris AI Research Institute (PRAIRIE). My PhD research focused on k-mer-based algorithms for contamination removal and assessment in ancient oral metagenomics, resulting in two first-author publications and the open-source tools decOM and aKmerBroom.

I hold a MSc in Life Science Informatics from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and a B.Eng in Biological Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín.

In my free time I listen and dance to salsa or enjoy decolonial, anticapitalist and feminist artwork and readings