{"id":11,"date":"2026-09-10T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:36:46","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large image-left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"882\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/monzon_photo-882x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/monzon_photo-882x1024.jpeg 882w, https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/monzon_photo-258x300.jpeg 258w, https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/monzon_photo-768x891.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/monzon_photo.jpeg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexander Monzon is an associate professor (RTDA researcher) in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy.<br>He currently conducts research on non-globular proteins, specifically disordered and repetitive proteins. Alexander has made significant contributions to the field of Bioinformatics and has co-authored several important databases, including DisProt, RepeatsDB, MobiDB, PED, and FuzDB. These databases represent the current state-of-the-art knowledge in the structural biology of non-globular proteins. He actively participates in various networks, scientific societies, and international consortia, such as the ISCB student council, A2B2C, COST-action \u201cNGP-net,\u201d MSCA RISE \u201cIDPfun\u201d and \u201cREFRACT\u201d, and the H2020 Twinning project \u201cPhasAGE\u201d Additionally, he was the main proposer of the COST action \u201cML4NGP.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic role<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant professor \u2013 tenure track (since 12\/2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic carrer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2018 \u2013 PhD in Basic and Applied Sciences<br>National University of Quilmes \u2013 Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2012 \u2013 MSc in Bioinformatic<br>National University of Entre R\u00edos \u2013 Argentina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Monzon is an associate professor (RTDA researcher) in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy.He currently conducts research on non-globular proteins, specifically disordered and repetitive proteins. Alexander has made significant contributions to the field of Bioinformatics and has co-authored several important databases, including DisProt, RepeatsDB, MobiDB, PED, and FuzDB. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biocomputingup.it\/alexander-monzon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}