Helena is Head of Bioinformatics at the Plant Biology Institute (PBI) at EIT. She builds and leads capabilities that turn complex biological data into actionable insights.

Helena holds a PhD in Computational Biology from the University of Manchester, where she studied plant acclimation. Her career spans entrepreneurial and global enterprise: she built bioinformatics pipelines from the ground up at a synthetic-biology start-up before joining Syngenta, where she headed a bioinformatics platform for crop protection research and development.

Outside work, Helena enjoys time at her family’s farm in the Black Forest, hiking in the mountains and doing puzzles with her toddler.