DC11 - Zoé Leroux

Fellow Presentation :

I am Zoé Le Roux, a PhD student in the Physics Department at Università di Bologna and the MaIAGE team at INRAE. I began my studies at Sorbonne Université, completing two years of a bachelor's degree in Biology and Mathematics. I then graduated from the University of Rennes with a Bachelor's degree in Biology and went on to complete a Master's degree in Bioinformatics at the same university.

I discovered my passion for bioinformatics during the first year of my bachelor's degree, but my fascination with graph and network theory emerged during my master's. This interest developed especially during my first internship, where I worked on building MetaboPredict—a metabolic database integrated into Neo4j for modelling co-cultures of bacteria and host cells studied in the laboratory. My enthusiasm for the field was further reinforced during my second internship, where I analysed the regulatory networks of EMX2. Which is why I am happy to continue working on graph during my PhD.

Within the FAIRomics project, I hold the position of DC11. My research focuses on Network-based algorithms for Knowledge Graph construction and analysis, with applications to the Omnicrobe knowledge graph. More specifically, my work involves analysing Omnicrobe's knowledge graph to address applied questions related to the knowledge modelling of fermented vegetables. (Omnicrobe is a database on microorganisms developed by INRAE.)