Nathalie Pochet, PhD, is trained in the fields of engineering in computer science, bioinformatics and artificial intelligence and is an expert in the area of genome and transcriptome analysis. As a postdoctoral fellow at the FAS Center for Systems Biology (Harvard) and at the Broad Institute (Harvard/MIT), she made groundbreaking discoveries in fundamentals of evolution, in the rare Mendelian kidney disease MCKD1, and in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. She is now an independent investigator in the Program for Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics within the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where she is undergoing promotion to assistant professor and where she has been collaborating with other investigators over the past 18 months in several thematic areas, including Parkinson’s disease.