Alessondra Speidel

Senior Project Manager
Novo Nordisk

Alessondra is a Senior Project Manager and Data & AI Informatics Specialist in R&D at Novo Nordisk, where she supports AI enablement and digital upskilling for researchers. With a PhD and multiple postdoctoral fellowships in biomedical engineering, she brings deep experience from academia, industry, and a women’s health start-up, where she led data management and informatics infrastructure development. She is passionate about mentoring women and under-represented minorities in STEM and advocates for diverse voices in AI to ensure robust, safe, unbiased, and responsible systems that benefit society.

“There is so much of human biology that we still do not understand, with the advent of omics technologies enabled collection of larger, richer datasets I am excited to see what deeper insights we might find through AI”

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