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Dr. Christian koch
Dr Christian Koch has been a portfolio manager at Bellevue Asset Management since 2014. From 2013-2014 he was a sell-side Pharma & Biotech equity analyst at Bank am Bellevue in Küsnacht and from 2010-2013 a Research Associate at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD in Computer-Assisted Drug Design from ETH Zurich and studied Bioinformatics from Goethe University Frankfurt.
Dr. Can Buldun-Gora
Dr. Can Buldun-Gora joined Bellevue Asset Management as Data Scientist in 2022. He is a member of the investment management team of BB Biotech. From 2018 to 2022 he was a Computational Scientist at Roche Pharma Research & Early Development, focusing on data science and software solutions for next-generation antibody engineering. Can Buldun-Gora holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from Jacobs University Bremen.
Dr. Leonidas Georgiou
Dr. Leonidas Georgiou joined Bellevue Asset Management as a portfolio manager in 2022. He previously worked as a biotechnology VC analyst at Hadean Ventures in Norway, covering European startups in pharma, medical device, diagnostic and digital health verticals. Leonidas studied neuroscience at the University of Glasgow and University of Toronto. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD in neuroscience from OIST in Japan where he studied neuron – glia interactions in behaving mice.
Dr. Olivia Woolley
Dr. Olivia Woolley joined Bellevue Asset Management as data scientist in 2022. She is a member of the investment management team of BB Biotech. Previously she was associate director data science at Novartis, working in Technical Research and Development. Before entering industry she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, in the area of digital epidemiology and complex networks. Olivia holds a PhD and MSc in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University and a BSc in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University.
Dr. Maurizio Bernasconi
Dr. Maurizio Bernasconi joined Bellevue Asset Management as analyst and portfolio manager in 2017. Prior he was a sell-side equity analyst in the Pharma & Biotech department of Bank am Bellevue. Maurizio Bernasconi has a master's degree in chemistry at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Basel and an MBA in International Healthcare Management from the Frankfurt School of Finance.
Dr. Samuel Croset
Dr. Samuel Croset joined Bellevue Asset Management in 2020 as lead of the digital transformation. He is a data scientist and member of the investment management team of BB Biotech. He previously worked for Roivant Sciences from 2018-2020 as data scientist supporting investment decisions in drug projects as well as leading a team focused on the analysis of real-world data. Prior to that, he started his professional career at Roche as data scientist in the research department (2014-2018). Samuel holds a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge, a MS in Bioinformatics and a MS in Biochemistry from the University of Geneva.