Christophe Dessimoz is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor at the University of Lausanne, Associate Professor at University College London and a group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

[1] Starting in April 2022, he will be joint executive director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, along with Ron Appel.

Dessimoz obtained his Master of Science degree in 2003[5] and PhD in Computer Science in 2009 from ETH Zurich in Switzerland[9] where his doctoral research was supervised by Gaston Gonnet[3] and examined by Amos Bairoch.

[9] After postdoctoral research at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire,[10] he joined University College London (UCL) as lecturer in 2013, and was promoted to Reader in 2015.

[1] Dessimoz's approach to benchmarking had a major impact on three key subfields of computational biology: orthology inference, sequence alignment, and the gene ontology (GO).