Leire Abarrategui is PhD student in co-direction at DataSHIELD team and ISGlobal. Her PhD is focused on the development of privacy-preserving tools for personalized medicine in rare diseases by DNA methylation testing. 

Her background is in engineering with a master’s in bioinformatics and Biostatistics. She contributes to DataSHIELD project implementing functions for omics data analysis.  She has Collaborated in LITMUS project developing infrastructure and functions for sharing and analysing safely large-scale cohorts, bioresources and multi-omics datasets.