Anna Fournier

Anna Fournier

Principal Data Scientist
Innovation
(Alumni)

Anna joined SDSC as a Data Scientist focusing on industry collaborations in July 2019. She completed her PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Luxembourg, where she analysed large-scale heterogeneous datasets and leveraged multiple disciplines: Statistics, Network Analysis, and Machine Learning. Before joining SDSC, Anna worked as a Data Scientist at Deloitte Luxembourg, with a focus on computer vision and time-series analysis.Currently, Anna is a Principal Data Scientist based at the ETH Zurich office, where she leads biomedical collaborations with industry partners. Anna works on a range of projects: protein properties prediction, biomanufacturing optimization, statistical model evaluation and others.

Projects

Drug Repositioning

Completed
Applying deep learning to repurpose drugs for the Sanfilippo syndrome treatment.
Health & Biomedical
NGO

Augmented cell therapies

Completed
An artificial intelligence-based system for augmented cell & gene therapies
Health & Biomedical
Private sector

WHO-Hive

Completed
Connecting skills, knowledge, and experiences for health emergencies
Digital Society

CleaRIS

In Progress
Cleantech Recommendation and Intelligence System
Climate & Environment
Energy & Sustainability

Publications

Mentioned in

September 22, 2025

AI Innovation Program Launches for Zurich SMEs

AI Innovation Program Launches for Zurich SMEs

Thorough selection process revealed 12 companies with AI-ready challenges
July 11, 2025

Canton Zurich and SDSC launch AI innovation program for SMEs

Canton Zurich and SDSC launch AI innovation program for SMEs

A one-year program is being rolled out to build a community, streamline AI technology adoption and fostering knowledge transfer.
April 22, 2024

The Promise of AI in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

The Promise of AI in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Innovation in pharmaceutical manufacturing raises key questions: How will AI change our operations? What does this mean for the skills of our workforce? How will it reshape our collaborative efforts? And crucially, how can we fully leverage these changes?
June 2, 2020

AI trends & use cases in the pharmaceutical industry

AI trends & use cases in the pharmaceutical industry

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not an alien word anymore nowadays. We see both academic and industrial institutions adopting AI topics as a part of their curriculum and use cases to accelerate existing processes. The pharmaceutical industry is one of them.

Case Studies

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