Miguel Andrade received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1994. He trained at the post-doctoral level at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and Cambridge with Chris Sander and Peer Bork. His post-doctoral studies involved the development and application of computational methods for the analysis of gene and protein function and structure. From 2003 to 2007, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine of the University of Ottawa, Scientist and Head of the Bioinformatics Group of the Ottawa Health Research Institute in Ottawa, Canada, where he was promoted to Senior Scientist in 2006. In 2007 Miguel started the Computational Biology and Data Mining group, first based at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin and since 2014 at the Faculty of Biology of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, where Miguel is Professor of Bioinformatics.