Chief Scientific Officer at Sustayn Bioscience. Ageing & longevity research, bioinformatics, and AI.
I'm from Colombia and have lived in 10 different countries. I did my undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of York (2013–2017), and my PhD (2018–2022) in João Pedro de Magalhães' lab at the University of Liverpool.
My first postdoc was at the CRUK Cambridge Institute in Masashi Narita's lab, working with Wolf Reik, followed by a second postdoc at the University of Rostock with Georg Fuellen.
I'm now Chief Scientific Officer at Sustayn Bioscience, helping anti-ageing and chronic disease companies predict novel, safe compounds using knowledge graphs, bioinformatics, and AI methods.
Notes and writing on ageing & longevity.
ageing.avelar.science
Small web apps and tools I build over time.
apps.avelar.science
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Validation requirements for AI-based intervention-evaluation in aging and longevity research and practice
G Fuellen, A Kulaga, S Lobentanzer, M Unfried, RA Avelar, D Palmer, et al.
Ageing Research Reviews·2025·17 citations
Conserved biological processes in partial cellular reprogramming: Relevance to aging and rejuvenation
RA Avelar, D Palmer, AY Kulaga, G Fuellen
Ageing Research Reviews·2025·9 citations
In-silico evaluation of aging-related interventions using omics data and predictive modeling
G Fuellen, D Palmer, C Fruijtier, RA Avelar
Ageing Research Reviews·2025·3 citations
Animal and vegetal materials of mouse oocytes segregate at first zygotic cleavage: a simple mechanism that makes the two-cell blastomeres differ reciprocally from the start
T Nolte, R Halabian, S Israel, Y Suzuki, RA Avelar, D Palmer, G Fuellen, et al.
Molecular human reproduction·2025·3 citations
Insights into the in vitro ichthyotoxicity on fish gill cells and toxin production of Karlodinium veneficum (Dinophyceae) strains from French waters
R Beesoo, K Hogeveen, F Hervé, D Réveillon, C Boucher, et al.
Harmful Algae·2025·2 citations