Alexander Monzon is an associate professor (RTDA researcher) in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy. He obtained his Bioinformatics degree (BSc/MSc) in 2012 from the National University of Entre Ríos (Oro Verde, Entre Ríos, Argentina) and his PhD in Basic and Applied Sciences in 2018 from the National University of Quilmes (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Following his doctoral studies, Alexander was awarded the MSCA “Seal of Excellence” fellowship at the University of Padova and joined the research group of Prof. Silvio Tosatto at the Department of Biomedical Sciences. He spent four years as a postgraduate researcher before being appointed to a Junior Faculty position in 2022 within the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova.

During his doctoral training, Alexander specialized in the field of Structural Bioinformatics under the guidance of Dr. Gustavo Parisi. His research focused on developing the CoDNaS database, which explores conformational diversity in the native state of proteins, resulting in several publications in high-impact journals. Alexander continued his postdoctoral training in Prof. Silvio Tosatto’s group, where he currently conducts research on non-globular proteins, specifically disordered and repetitive proteins. He has made significant contributions to the field of Bioinformatics and has co-authored several important databases, predictors and computational services, including DisProt, RepeatsDB, MobiDB, PED, FuzDB, RING, among others. These tools represent the current state-of-the-art knowledge in the structural biology of non-globular proteins.

Alexander actively participates in various networks, scientific societies, and international consortia, such as the ISCB student council, A2B2C, COST-action “NGP-net,” MSCA RISE “IDPfun” and “REFRACT”, and the H2020 Twinning project “PhasAGE”. Additionally, hi is the chair COST action “ML4NGP.