Antonio Marco, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at The University of Essex. Dr Marco obtained a degree in Biological Sciences and a doctorate in Genetics from the University of Valencia and has a Graduate Diploma in Mathematics from the University of London (LSE). He has been a lecturer at the University of Essex since 2013, teaching statistics, mathematics, genomics and bioinformatics, and is the course director of the BSc Genetics and the MSc Health Genomics programmes.