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Rui Alves started is research career in 1996. From the begining he was interested in Computational Systems Biology. During his Ph. D. he developed and applied methods to identify biological design principles in molecular networks and circuits. He was among the first in apllying Monte-Carlo like simulations to understand the limits for the dynamic behavior of molecular systems. After his Ph. D., at the end of 2000, he moved to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and later to the Imperial College in London, where he was one of the first to take advantage of whole genome sequencing to analyze the evolution of enzyme networks. At the end of 2001 he move to the University of Lleida, in Spain, where he continued to integrate Computational Systems Biology and Bioinformatics to develop methodologies for using omics data to reconstruct molecular circuits. In 2003 he moved to UC Davis in the USA to use systems biology and bioinformatics to identify signatures of evolution in whole proteomes. In 2006 he returned to the University of Lleida as a Ramon y Cajal Research Scientist, and he became a Serra Hunter Associate Professor in 2010. He continued to contribute to methodological development in computational systems biology, and became interested in plant synthetic biology, where he already published several papers. He continued to do research in the field of biological design principles and evolution. His multidisciplinary perspective resulted in many collaborations and he became involved in the development of tools and servers for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics. He has an H-index of 26, an i10 index of 43, and an i100 index of 5. He published 64 peer reviewed papers. He is the first or last author in 41 of these papers. In the last few year he has also participated in research administration. He was interim Director of the Health Ph. D. program at the University of Lleida in 2015 and became Director of the same program between 2016 and 2019. In 2016 he became the local director of the Catalan Interuniversity Ph. D. program in Bioinformatics, coordinated by UAB. He also became the Vice Chair (Secretario) of his department in 2019. He currently is also the local representative of UdL in the Academic committee developing the catalan Interuniversity Master on Data Science in Biomedical Data, coordinated by URV. He uses Mathematica since 1996.